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Sasha began training in fine art during her teens. Initially she trained in the workshops of Corfu artists Spyros Alamanos, Nerina Lymperopoulou, and Aggelos Gerakaris, later attending Vakalo School of Fine Art in Athens.
She held her first solo exhibition in 2000, followed by three further exhibitions in her home town of Corfu, while continuing her academic studies in Communications and Literature.
Sasha spent a decade in academia, studying the History of Culture and Western Esotericism, with the aim of better understanding the symbolic vocabularies embedded in esoteric 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. In the same year she began curating 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 followed.
In 2018 personal bereavement led to a temporary hiatus. Later that year Sasha began managing The Attic Gallery, the only contemporary private art gallery in Corfu Town, and new, fruitful collaborations emerged with artists from across Greece and further afield.
Since 2020 Sasha began working on illustration projects for her own books, producing the illustrations for Son of Prometheus. A second family crisis and bereavement led to another hiatus in 2022-2024.
As she recovers from difficult life events, in 2025 Sasha looks forward to returning to existing illustration projects and producing fresh work in her neosymbolist style.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2022 – Son of Prometheus – Treadwell’s, London
- 2018 – Art in the Crypt – Crypt Gallery, London
- 2017 – Stained by the Light II – Glastonbury Galleries
- 2017 – Stained by the Light I – Corfu Reading Society
- 2016 – Saving the Lives of Angels – Treadwell’s, London
- 2015 – Saints of the Word – Gothenburg/Lund, Sweden
- 2015 – Occult Icons – Treadwell’s, London
- 2009 – Titans Bearing Gifts – U. Indianapolis Cultural Centre – Athens
- 2004 – A Child of Earth I am – Corfu Palace, Corfu
- 2003 – Paradise Lost II – Cyprus Cultural Centre, Athens
- 2003 – Paradise Lost I – Art Cafe, Corfu
- 2001 – Window on the World – Art Cafe, Corfu
- 2000 – Inner Mirrors – French Institute, Corfu
Group Exhibitions
- 2021 “Ink on Paper” Chili Art Gallery, Athens
- 2021 “Art Thessaloniki Fair” Chili Art Gallery, Athens
- 2020 “New Symbols” Chili Art Gallery, Athens
- 2019 “Human Traces” Chili Art Gallery Athens
- 2016 “Trans-States I” University of Northampton
- 2014 “Arts Revolution – Cultural Salon,” Plous Cultural Space, Corfu
- 2013 “The Lonely Metropolis Celebrates Alone”AshinArt, Athens
- 2013 “1st Neosymbolist Salon,” Corrala Museum of Art, Madrid
- 2004 “Angels at Play – Tribute to Angels” Dadaist, Athens
Browse Sasha’s art series below. Click thumbnails to see all images in a collection.
Artist statement
I think in pictures and as a synesthete, I see words as colours and images.
Strongly influenced by the Greek iconographic tradition, I am enchanted by the notion of collapsing time so that the image captures the viewer by spilling out into our spacetime, and the concept of art as a receptacle for entities and thoughtforms.
In my art, I use symbolic languages and personified concepts from mythical and esoteric traditions to explore the human condition, memory, and existential questions in visual narratives and riddles. Tiny details may hide layers of meaning, and I enjoy the interplay of strong colour and the element of surprise. Every detail in my paintings has intentional significance, inviting the viewer is into a dialogue with it so that viewing becomes a conversation.
I work mainly in oils on wood and canvas, or in inks on textured paper.
Sasha is an extraordinary example of the new breed of academics in the young field of esoteric studies, and of a new generation of artist intellectuals raised by parents whose own breakthroughs in non-traditional beliefs and practices have laid the foundation for a greater understanding of spirituality and healing.
Lacerating! Her work is spectacular! I love her paintings and what she writes about them. She is certainly tuned into the mythological, alchemical, all those wonderful areas the Jungians explore.
Art Series
Click the image to see the presentation of each series/exhibition collection.
Genii 2022
Seals of the Philosophers 2020
The Hellenic Collection 2020
Alchemical Bestiary 2016
Son of Prometheus 2022
Saints of the Word 2014-2019
Stained by the Light II 2017
Saving the Lives of Angels 2016
A Season in Hell 2020
Bijoux de Rose-Croix 2018
Stained by the Light I 2017
Early work 1999-2012
Art blog
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...