Aucke Paulusma is an Amsterdam-based painter whose practice explores the experience of living with chronic illness and its impact on the body and everyday life. His paintings move between figuration and abstraction, using expressive colour, fragmented forms, and layered imagery to explore vulnerability, resilience, intimacy, memory, and care. Rooted in lived experience, Paulusma’s work often brings personal experience into dialogue with historical, cultural, and visual research. His paintings d