TQL S4E27 | Yasmin Ali

Find Yasmin Ali online:Artist Website: https://www.yasminaliart.comSaatchi Art profile: https://www.saatchiart.com/yasminaliEtsy shop: https://twistedbrushdesigns.etsy.comMore about Yasmin Ali:Yasmin Ali is a Chicago-based, self-taught painter working primarily in oils. Her heavily textured, carved abstract paintings are inspired by natural systems—trees, water, wind, and roots—and the ways they hold growth, pressure, and resilience over time. Her process is intuitive and layered, with each mark responding to the one before it. Through building, cutting, and carving the paint surface, she creates compositions that reflect inner states as much as external ones, exploring identity, memory, and how what’s underneath the surface informs what’s above it. Yasmin’s practice also extends into digital and AI-informed work, creating an approach that sits where art tradition and experimentation meet. Through her brand TwistedBrush, she brings her work into everyday spaces through prints and designed objects. With a background in music, performance, and community organizing, she approaches painting as a form of composition—built through the rhythm, balance and movement that create s