Marina Esmeraldo

Marina Esmeraldo is a Latinx self-taught artist and illustrator from Brazil based in Barcelona. She has ADD and loves seeing the world through her unique, squiggly brain.

Creating colourful images for music, fashion, publications & brands, her witty and vibrant illustrations attract a range of global commissions, while her fine art projects are earthy explorations of memory, place and geometry. With her poetry, Marina reflects on belonging and the sense-memories of her travels. In her lectures, she talks about creativity and overcoming limiting beliefs.

Informed by her tropical upbringing in northeast Brazil, previous training as an architect and her love for Modern Art, Marina’s style is bursting with experimental shape, pattern and composition.

Her diverse talents and skills, alongside her exceeding curiosity, fuel an unconventional, multi-faceted creative career that is playful, rebellious and transformative.