About

Sashelka is a multidisciplinary visual artist born in Moscow, Russia, and currently based in the United Kingdom. Her practice moves across oil painting, conceptual photography, digital illustration, and emerging digital formats, including Web3.

Her work often begins with emotional states that resist direct language. Through bodies, objects, constructed scenes, and symbolic images, she builds works that feel controlled on the surface while carrying unease underneath.

Before art became her primary mode of expression, her path moved through fields that seem distant from the visual arts: banking education, accounting, financial management, and structural drafting in architectural metalwork. Construction, measurement, visualization, and technical specification shaped the way she now builds images: emotionally charged, but held by structure.

Self-taught as an artist, Sashelka developed her practice independently. Her early connection to image and performance began through drawing, theatre, dance, and creative competitions, but it was later in adulthood, after motherhood, that art became a necessary form of processing and expression.

Today, her work moves between physical and digital space, bringing painting, photography, and digital image-making into one evolving artistic system. Her works have been presented in international exhibitions, publications, and digital contexts.

My work begins with internal states that cannot be said directly. I translate them into images through body, object, gesture, and symbol.

Symbol is not decoration in my work. It is a way to hold several meanings at once, without forcing them into a single explanation.

I am not interested in purely decorative images. I am interested in images that stay — that carry emotion, resist immediate explanation, and continue to exist in the viewer’s mind after they are seen.

An image is complete for me when it cannot be easily explained, but cannot be forgotten.