SASHA HARTSLIEF, Blue room
Oil on canvas, 60 x 40 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Bright light
Oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Cool Light
Oil on canvas, 100 x 90 cm
Passionate about drawing from an early age, Sasha Hartslief is largely self-taught. Hartslief’s subjects are often viewed from a philosophical, deeply personal perspective, resulting in paintings that are emotionally charged, pensive in mood and considered in composition. Her subtle investigations into the human condition somehow strike a chord with us.
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Interior light with shadows I
Oil on canvas, 60 x 40 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Interior light with shadows II
Oil on canvas, 60 x 40 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Interior with candlelight
Oil on canvas, 100 x 90 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Lost in thought I
Oil on canvas, 95 x 75 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Lost in thought II
Oil on canvas, 60 x 40 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Morning
Oil on canvas, 100 x 90 cm
Sasha Hartslief's brushstrokes are more diffuse than the precise, stylised techniques of the neo-classicists. Like the French Impressionists, she uses brushstrokes to evoke the transience of light, colour and movement. And like her Renaissance and Impressionist forebears, she employs everyday visual devices to explore the way in which atmospheric light and tonal modulations inform a surface, and to evoke atmospheres fraught with symbolic subtexts. But the transience of the captured moment is counterbalanced by the disciplined rigour of Hartslief's technique and painterly process. She admits to being "obsessively skills-driven and consumed" by her work. Each image becomes a formal study in light, contour and line.
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Morning light with white robe
Oil on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, On the threshold
Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Remains of the day
Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Seated girl
Oil on canvas, 40 x 60 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Sheer Curtain
Oil on canvas, 95 x 75 cm
"I defer to the classical Masters for inspiration," says Sasha Hartslief, who admits to placing images painted by the 19th-century American Impressionist, John Singer Sargent, next to her easel while she paints. Her muses include the 19th-century neo-classicist, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, whose draughtsmanship and linear dexterity provide formal inspiration for her works.
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Studio in first light
Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Sun on her face
Oil on canvas, 90 x 100 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Tea ceremony
Oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, The invitation
Oil on canvas, 140 x 100 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, The Living Room Of Louise Bourgeois (From A Photo By Dominique Nabokov)
100 x 120 cm
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Waiting and wondering
Oil on canvas, 100 x 80 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, White shirt with clouds
Oil on canvas, 110 x 90 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Window on her world
Oil on canvas, 100 x 140 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
SASHA HARTSLIEF, Woman in the window
Oil on canvas, 145 x 110 cm
Sasha Hartslief's paintings often depict atmospheric interiors, where light and her female muses are joint protagonists. Her subjects – often family members, friends, and neighbours – are painted from a deeply personal and intimate perspective, resulting in compelling and intriguing works whose emotional charge keeps us looking.
Writing in the Financial Times, Enuma Okoro notes how ‘Hartslief employs deft brushstrokes in muted tones to create atmospheres where light and shadow play off one another, tenderly capturing moments plucked from daily life. Moments that remind us of the inherent complexity of living with ourselves. Her characters are rarely aware of a viewer, immersed in their own worlds, but worlds any of us might easily slip into – because they feel like fragments from the simple but layered business of being human.’*
*Enuma Okoro, Decisions and the bigger picture,
Financial Times, 20 May, 2022
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