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Sasha has been training in fine art since her teens. Initially she trained in the workshops of famed Corfu artists Spyros Alamanos, Nerina Lymperopoulou, and Aggelos Gerakaris, and later attended Vakalo School of Fine Art in Athens. She held her first solo exhibition aged 22, in 2000, followed by four further exhibitions in her home town of Corfu, all while continuing her academic studies in Communications and Literature. Not satisfied with the options open to her, Sasha spent a decade in academia, studying the History of Culture and Western Esotericism, with the aim of better understanding the symbolic vocabularies available from long lost traditions. During this “dry” artistic period she painted portraits on commission and began exploring Symbolism more systematically. She began painting and exhibiting regularly again in 2014, on the completion of her PhD. The same year saw her undertake management of ICON Gallery in Corfu town, where she gathered and promoted local artists working in traditional media, alongside her own work. A series of international exhibitions and collaborations quickly followed, until 2018 when personal bereavement led to a temporary hiatus. Nevertheless, that year saw the birth of The Attic Gallery, the only contemporary private art gallery in Corfu Town, and new, fruitful collaborations with artists from across Greece and further afield. As of 2020, Sasha has begun new projects reflecting her enduring passion for neosymbolist art and alchemical emblems. Working to a project-based approach, Sasha incorporates her art into her scholarship, and her research into her art. See below for her most recent work. This page is updated frequently.
New alchemical art collection: The Seals of the Philosophers
New art collectionThe Seals of the Philosophers Opus Medico-Chymicum: tertius Basilica PhilosophicaThis series of emblems comprises 160 separate images, deriving from Johannes Mylius' vast compendium spanning over 3000 pages. Each emblem is dedicated to a historical...
Participation in “New Symbols” exhibition, Athens
I was also deeply honoured to see Hineni highlighted and discussed by art critic Stella Sevastopoulos in the only English-language review of the Athens art scene, in an overall deeply insightful and observant review of the exhibition. The New Symbols project is one...
Art in dark places
want of trying. Yet I saw things in that abyss that should never be spoken of except in warning. So those paintings will never be created. Late in 2019 I finally found time to sit down at the easel, following a monumental blow that added insult to injury following my...
Portfolio: Salon de la Rose+Croix: the mystical artworks of Sasha Chaitow
A collection of fifteen art prints from the original coloured drawings and accompanying historical booklet, both by Sasha Chaitow PhD.
Les bijoux de la Rose +Croix
The 27th June 2018 marked the centenary of the death of Josephin Peladan, the mysterious French visionary author who dreamed of igniting a cultural renaissance through symbolic art containing esoteric messages and who masterminded the Salons de la Rose + Croix....
The Peladan Centenary Collection 1918-2018
27th June 2018 marked the centenary of the death of Josephin Peladan, the mysterious French visionary author who dreamed of igniting a cultural renaissance through symbolic art containing esoteric messages and who masterminded the Salons de la Rose + Croix. Regular...
Stained by the Light II & ART = PRAXIS Symposium | Glastonbury 2017
Stained by the Light II 2017 was Sasha Chaitow’s new solo exhibition of neosymbolist art, accompanied by music written for the paintings, and a one-day symposium of talks by scholars and artists “Art = Praxis”. The exhibition was hosted at Glastonbury Galleries...
Stained by the Light I | Sasha Chaitow’s 2017 art exhibition | A virtual visit to the Corfu show
Sasha Chaitow’s exhibition of melodized neosymbolist art “Stained by the Light I”, Corfu Reading Society, May 2017
Ρεπορτάζ από το Corfu TV για την έκθεση Λερωμένη από το Φως
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqWwByxk0BA&sns=fb
Studio shots – Sasha at the easel
For those interested in technique; three short videos of me at the easel, working on paintings for the Stained by the Light collection.