The artist
Kyiv blue,
Lisbon light
Sasha is a Ukrainian artist living in Lisbon. She paints with alcohol ink — a medium that refuses to be drawn in a straight line — and teaches the way she works: a light hand, good music, no pressure to get it right.
The practice
A medium that does what it wants
- 01
Pigment
Kamenskaya inks and metallic accents, poured straight from the bottle. No brushes, no underdrawing.
- 02
Movement
Air, tilt and a heat gun decide where the colour goes. Sasha guides it, then gets out of the way.
- 03
Finish
Gold leaf, hand lettering, and a frame cut and finished in Lisbon before the piece leaves the studio.
«A criatividade não tem fronteiras.»
- Based in
- Lisboa, Portugal
- Medium
- Alcohol ink, gold leaf
- Teaching since
- 2022
- Languages
- Portuguese & English
How it happened
Four moments, one table
- 2022
From Kyiv to Lisbon
The first paintings were made on the kitchen table in Lisbon, with three bottles of ink and no plan. What started as a way to keep busy became a practice.
- 2022
The first workshop
A Saturday morning, six people, one long table at Rua José Travassos. Most of them had never touched ink before, and all of them left with something they liked.
- 2023
Commissions & names
Hand-lettered names painted over ink — weddings, births, house numbers. The pieces people ask for most are the ones carrying a word that matters to them.
- Now
Two addresses
Saturdays in the Baixa, selected Sundays in Cascais, and commissions shipped framed across Portugal and Europe.
Come and paint
Two hours, your hands
The best way to understand the medium is to pour it yourself. Workshops run in Lisbon and Cascais, €40 per person, all materials included.