About | Fine Artist In Sydney | Sasha Krautman

Sasha Krautman (b. 1995) was born and raised in Saint Petersburg, Russia. After completing her degree in architecture and interior design, she travelled the world for nearly a decade running an architecture visualisation studio, until she found her new home, love and family in Australia.

She has been making art throughout as a way to reconnect with the physical world, developing her style and technique, and exhibiting across Australia, USA, Asia and Europe.

She now works and lives in Sydney, spending a few weeks a year with her family in Russia.

Sasha’s work explores boundaries through separating her subjects onto a grid, where two scenarios or points of view unfold on the same canvas.

The grid becomes a space where boundaries can be drawn on her own terms — something she finds harder to do in life than on paper. Sectioning her artworks has become a sort of therapy and created a space where she could set those limits visually, and, through practice, carefully transfer into her life.

Her work flows between abstraction and detail. Each square looks like a tiny abstraction, but together they compose two distinct melodies that sing in harmony with each other. That creates an exciting play of shifting between two scenes—first viewing them separately, then noticing similarities and crossovers, and finally seeing how they merge into one another.

Having developed her own drawing technique, Sasha works exclusively with coloured pencils. Mounting paper to wooden panels, she hand-frames each piece with vintage leather, adding a distinctive finish without using conventional framing. This handmade approach—from the meticulous pencil work to the leather finishing—reinforces her commitment to slow, tactile creation, inviting viewers to pause and engage with art that rewards patient, careful observation.