Aline Thomassen is a Dutch artist whose practice centers on the female body and its emotional states. Having lived between the Netherlands and Morocco, she brings a hybrid sense of identity and sensitivity to her paintings.

Her canvases are filled with intense colors, flowing lines, and fragmented, merging female forms. These bodies exist beyond the boundaries of the everyday and the extraordinary, forming visceral landscapes of sensation.

The women she paints are not fixed ideals.
Love, loss, pain, and freedom—
these emotions emerge through posture, expression, and gesture, revealing what Thomassen calls a sense of “brutal tenderness.”

At the heart of her work is watercolor.
Its fluidity, its bleeding across the paper, and its porous unpredictability resonate with the spirit of sumuk (ink painting)—not only in medium but in philosophy. Her paintings bridge the aesthetic sensibilities of East and West, echoing the subtleties of ink’s yohak (empty space).

At the Jeonnam International Sumuk Biennale, Thomassen presents landscapes where body and emotion breathe as one.

Her work becomes a site of empathy—
a sensuous space where civilizations, bodies, and beings come together as neighbors.