SASHA HARDING 

Education

Marlborough College, Wiltshire 1989-1991
Shelley Park, Boscombe, Dorset - Diploma in Fine Art
Falmouth School of Art - Degree in Fine Art

SASHA HARDING  - Exhibitions

'Paint' 1996  - 2003  Swanage, Dorset
Barbara Woods Exhibitions 1997 - 2003 Upton Park, Poole, Dorset
One Man Show - Glass House Gallery, Truro - April 99
One Man Show - Glass House Gallery, Truro Aug 2001
One Man Show - Glass House Gallery, Truro Aug 2003

SASHA HARDING  - Collections

Michael Grade - BBC

Sasha Harding grew up in Dorset near the sea, she sold her first painting at the age of fourteen when she and her elder sister Sophie held an impromptu show in the sitting room of their family home.

Sasha Harding was one of a family of five sisters and a brother, living on the beautiful Isle of Purbeck.  Her interest in art was stimulated early, both by her surroundings and a tradition of art and music in the family.  Two of Sasha's grandparents were artists and Jeka Kemp, a well-known post impressionist painter, was a great aunt whose sketch books the children were allowed to play with when they were young.

Sasha Harding's paintings reflect her happy childhood familiarity with the coast of Dorset.  Having settled in Cornwall after completing her degree in Fine Art at Falmouth; Sasha continues to draw her inspiration from the sea shore and local life.

Painting with a limited palette of colours allows Sasha to concentrate on her interest in form which, clearly seen in her still life painting, is carried through in her depiction of coastal scenes.  In these she explores the gentle tones of a beach seen under a cloudy sky, or in the reflective langour of a summer day.  Her observations become more sharply drawn in bright sunlight, with clear colours and crisp accents.  Sasha's sense of the absurd sparkles irrepressibly through her work, but the lasting impression is one of great affection for her subject.