https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/blog daily 0.75 2026-09-28 https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/blog/my-artist-journey monthly 0.5 2026-09-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/ea4b616c-c787-4da5-a040-bc8924150272/Untitled+Design.png Blog - Making as a Way of Thinking: An Artist’s Journey - From around the age of fifteen, my friends and I started exploring abandoned places around Riga and nearby towns. We went into empty factories, train stations, hospitals, hotels and houses. There were abandoned churches too, some still standing quietly in the woods. I was drawn to derelict buildings, textures, empty rooms and brutalist architecture. We explored everything, from entire buildings to small architectural details. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/b74766f4-7165-44b2-9752-75ba0bf37fc2/2.jpg Blog - Making as a Way of Thinking: An Artist’s Journey - My first digital camera was a Sony, and having it gave me a way to start experimenting with composition and storytelling. I photographed the places we explored, but I was also interested in photographing people. I particularly loved, and still love, photographing ordinary domestic scenes and daily routines. There is something about observing somebody doing something completely everyday that interests me. Photography made me more aware of how a composition can direct attention and how much can be communicated without explaining everything. That way of looking still sits somewhere underneath my work now. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/4d48f3d4-6a37-4f13-961d-40a4c1d2ae18/4d4b5071-b09f-4cdf-8c87-f030f50e803f.JPG Blog - Making as a Way of Thinking: An Artist’s Journey - I studied Technical Arts and Special Effects for Film and Theatre at University of the Arts London, at Wimbledon College of Art. We made things every day. I worked with wood, metal and clay, and spent a lot of time in the darkroom. It was an environment where an idea had to become a physical thing, and I loved discovering how many different ways there were to make something. For one project I made a needle and button at around ten times their normal size. I loved working with scale and seeing how an ordinary object changed simply because its proportions had been altered. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/dd9a5691-7621-4912-ad07-e90953a08bed/IMG_2064.jpg Blog - Making as a Way of Thinking: An Artist’s Journey - Later I was introduced to clay sculpting, mould-making and casting, and became fascinated with both. There is something very direct about clay. You are essentially making things out of mud with your hands. Touch is unavoidable. Moulding and casting interested me differently. I started thinking about it almost as collage in three dimensions. You make components, impressions and separate pieces, then bring them together to form something new. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/1774aa5e-1e96-4d61-ac9d-20f4b3b8814d/51e10d19-32b7-4bc8-ba5e-1142b88e1739.jpeg Blog - Making as a Way of Thinking: An Artist’s Journey - As a fabricator, your job is to understand somebody else's idea and find a way to realise it. There is enormous skill involved in doing that well, and I learned a huge amount during those years, but creatively I was always working towards someone else's destination. The hours were also long. I was often stressed, tired and working overtime. There was a strange contradiction in spending every day making things while having almost no time or energy left to make anything of my own. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/9b03f5cc-d81c-4451-ba57-68dc55378d54/Serpent+collage+2024.jpg Blog - Making as a Way of Thinking: An Artist’s Journey - There was something familiar in it. Years earlier I had taped sheets of paper together on my bedroom floor because the surface I wanted didn't exist, so I made it. Now I was building another large surface and beginning again. I love looking at materials and feeling the possibility of what might happen with them. I don't necessarily want to know exactly what the finished thing will be. I want to experiment, move things around, make something fail, find something unexpected and surprise myself. That process of exploration and discovery is one of the things that brought me back to making and continues to keep me there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/0b2d984e-f641-40db-98a0-c2dd6a044e4c/IMG_2674.jpg Blog - Making as a Way of Thinking: An Artist’s Journey - I don't want to reproduce another artist's language. What interests me is seeing how other artists have built their own systems and then asking what my own might become. That question is still open. And perhaps that is what I now understand differently about being an artist. I don't need to arrive at a point where the work suddenly certifies me as one. The work is happening now. 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Potato Pie slice - Potato Pie Slice by Anastasija Sarajeva, a contemporary abstract painting in acrylic and oil on canvas, with fragmented letterforms in mustard yellow, mint green, cream, rust and deep green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/84e94973-7d82-4254-8fcc-b4d76c735ea4/IMG_2555.jpeg Available Works - Potato Pie slice - Detail of Potato Pie Slice showing a rust-red arch overlapping a golden yellow geometric shape, surrounded by muted grey and dark green, with visible canvas weave. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/1e9b940c-f612-46b2-8418-3aba7fdcbe90/IMG_2556.jpeg Available Works - Potato Pie slice - Textured brushwork in Potato Pie Slice, with layered rust-red paint, exposed flecks of canvas and adjoining ochre, cream and charcoal shapes. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/playground-chalk monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/5bbb54a6-7c97-4b7d-81d1-ec2d8d8daea9/IMG_2561.jpeg Available Works - Playground chalk - Patterned abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva, with winding blue bands, concentric circles, cream scalloped forms and sun-like motifs in ochre, terracotta, sage green and plum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/7d35c708-a30c-419d-b3a9-449d9c9f9760/IMG_2562.jpeg Available Works - Playground chalk - Organic abstract painting detail showing a curved cobalt blue band around cream triangular marks on sage green, beside an ochre shape with pale pink strokes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/c670ce3b-20c5-4366-8259-d6ead0fc4be8/IMG_2563.jpeg Available Works - Playground chalk - Close-up of red and cream concentric circles above a small yellow ring, surrounded by earthy brown, green and plum shapes with a mottled paint surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/b9cafbc6-2aa8-4c69-9670-a03bb1fff85b/IMG_2564.jpeg Available Works - Playground chalk - Textured abstract art detail with a striped olive green oval on orange, scattered cream marks over terracotta and brown, and a sweeping deep blue border. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/puffy-bug monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/f54c5197-4887-4bc6-8684-521076104273/IMG_2565.jpeg Available Works - Puffy bug - Expressive abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva, with sweeping mint green and cream spirals, cobalt blue circles, yellow zigzags and rows of small rings over pink, lilac and ochre. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/02e5f79a-893b-4225-90cc-316f7fc6908e/IMG_2566.jpeg Available Works - Puffy bug - Layered abstract painting detail with cream brushstrokes sweeping across ochre and lilac, above a curved mint green shape dotted with pale circular marks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/5dde72b1-cbba-4929-9663-e8d0260462cb/IMG_2567.jpeg Available Works - Puffy bug - Close-up of a cobalt blue ring with a pale centre beneath broad mint green brushstrokes, alongside cream loops, lilac shapes and a bright yellow accent. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/6e3b8de2-f218-49ba-b124-db9a40736081/IMG_2568.jpeg Available Works - Puffy bug - Gestural abstract art detail showing broad cream and pale green strokes crossing mustard yellow, dusty pink and burgundy, with visible bristle marks and thin layers of colour. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/orange-slice monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/d8e6422e-d50b-42a0-aec1-6e5903a51847/IMG_2570.jpeg Available Works - Orange Slice - Organic abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva, with pale blue winding forms, flower-like circles and clusters of yellow dots across a richly patterned terracotta, ochre and deep green surface. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/8a178e0e-e48d-4c30-9cda-5b215628944a/IMG_2571.jpeg Available Works - Orange Slice - Close-up of a pale blue serpentine shape edged in blush pink, beside black curves dotted with yellow, translucent ochre circles and layered rust-red paint. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/bca6fa87-d4c5-4441-a540-cb3863c98f04/IMG_2572.jpeg Available Works - Orange Slice - Textured abstract painting detail showing overlapping pale pink circular forms beneath a black and yellow curved band, with angular brown shapes and deep green patches. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/bcc9ff55-5cbd-4727-bd45-07e641ab0b8d/IMG_2573.jpeg Available Works - Orange Slice - Abstract mark-making in close-up, with an ochre circle and teal centre beside a broad charcoal diagonal, pale blue curves and yellow dabs over an earthy red-brown background. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/eh22dw84l6qft5f5xvbdma6ei4guq4 monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/04a630b6-9d45-45c7-8e92-7da52f5134da/IMG_2558.jpeg Available Works - Lemon tart - Geometric abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva, with angular yellow forms, pale pink letter fragments and burnt orange shapes layered across deep green and muted grey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/6bef9a06-4cd2-451f-8e30-fd0ad6794dfd/IMG_2559.jpeg Available Works - Lemon tart - Abstract painting detail showing a broad golden yellow band crossing deep green, with burnt orange below, rough paint edges and textured brushstrokes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/f3a10b00-90c6-455c-8198-93315a226e98/IMG_2560.jpeg Available Works - Lemon tart - Close-up of a pale pink diagonal letterform crossing an ochre-yellow stripe, with chalky white highlights, visible canvas texture and dark green brushwork. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/bread-sandwich-and-gravy monthly 0.5 2026-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/7ea3d921-4d3b-461b-8111-4b59bf57dd65/IMG_2574.jpeg Available Works - Bread sandwich and Gravy - IMG_2574.jpeg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/bc0889cb-f19a-4f1e-b805-8b175dbfcd82/IMG_2575.jpeg Available Works - Bread sandwich and Gravy - Close-up of Bread Sandwich and Gravy, an acrylic and oil abstract painting, showing fragmented cream letterforms, ochre and mint green shapes, layered brushstrokes and visible canvas texture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/19dd9258-65e5-49da-9bed-da8f096f148b/IMG_2576.jpeg Available Works - Bread sandwich and Gravy - Close-up of Bread Sandwich and Gravy showing abstract cream letterforms overlapping burgundy, terracotta and charcoal shapes, with visible brush marks and textured acrylic and oil paint on canvas. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/berry-jam-toast monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/071a7351-d836-457c-a985-1269ecb85d42/IMG_2577.jpeg Available Works - Berry Jam Toast - Abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva featuring fragmented cream and coral letterforms, sage green blocks and mustard yellow shapes layered over slate blue, charcoal and rust. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/7eee660a-112e-40bf-a19a-b10baa8b3b54/IMG_2578.jpeg Available Works - Berry Jam Toast - Textured abstract painting detail showing a broad coral-pink curve around a pale grey centre, with sweeping brush marks beside sage green and slate blue blocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/4ae7d0c5-a5d3-4272-8ff5-5a5623a13fe0/IMG_2580.jpeg Available Works - Berry Jam Toast - Close-up of a curved cream letterform surrounding a bold black brushstroke and coral stripe, with layered paint and visible canvas weave against blue-grey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/5c9a54fa-9c98-4fee-9406-632ad65576ab/IMG_2579.jpeg Available Works - Berry Jam Toast - Abstract colour study within the painting, showing a pale pink angular shape edged in coral against mustard yellow, with directional brushstrokes and fine surface texture. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/raspberry-pie monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/46dbf8eb-9726-4754-8330-2b528050d3d8/IMG_2581.jpg Available Works - Raspberry Pie - Colourful geometric abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva, with overlapping pink, bright orange and cream letterforms against deep green, burgundy and ochre shapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/96d494d7-5ebe-44d2-82af-ea4640fb6e4c/IMG_2582.jpeg Available Works - Raspberry Pie - Close-up of layered orange and burgundy paint crossed by pale pink and vivid orange bands, revealing rough brushwork and flecks of underlying colour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/a1856d83-c857-4f22-805c-d16b8572814e/IMG_2583.jpeg Available Works - Raspberry Pie - Abstract painting detail with a curved cream form overlapping an orange diagonal stripe, surrounded by teal and burgundy, with raised paint and curved surface marks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/e07be13b-60a1-4ea2-a453-e0a53cc3c4af/IMG_2584.jpeg Available Works - Raspberry Pie - Close-up of an ochre curved shape beside charcoal grey, pink and bright orange, showing textured paint, fine brush marks and visible canvas weave. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/pie-and-gravy monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/b8c4ea29-74a3-4ff0-90ca-a1e4e3f25ca4/IMG_2496.jpeg Available Works - Pie and gravy - Colourful abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva, with overlapping orange arches, yellow angular shapes and speckled pink letterforms among olive green, burgundy, cream and charcoal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/b2d42a76-1da8-4bea-9a8b-8be081a69fb3/IMG_2495.jpeg Available Works - Pie and gravy - Abstract letterform detail showing a rounded orange shape edged with yellow above a pale pink angular form, with broken paint coverage revealing darker layers beneath. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/e0bc074b-03c3-4ca0-b760-13ba992ad2b6/IMG_2493.jpeg Available Works - Pie and gravy - Close-up of textured orange and golden yellow shapes meeting against dark teal, with sweeping curved brushstrokes, fine parallel marks and glimpses of underlying colour. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/2eb88c96-bd26-476e-b355-f0203864994d/IMG_2492.jpeg Available Works - Pie and gravy - Layered geometric abstraction in close-up, with a speckled pink letter fragment crossing olive and cream diagonals beside a dark green arch and bright yellow band. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/potato-pie monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/95180269-70b4-4026-9023-d963a14f4da0/FullSizeRender.jpeg Available Works - Potato pie - Textured abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva, with fragmented pink and cream letterforms, mustard yellow curves and burgundy outlines interlocking against dark green and charcoal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/a58a1613-c478-4199-b752-6ed687a7c06c/FullSizeRender.jpeg Available Works - Potato pie - Close-up of a cream geometric form with broken paint coverage revealing grey and muted pink beneath, bordered by a burgundy angular line and mustard yellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/3a736e0c-1978-455b-b63a-a426f6443e49/FullSizeRender.jpeg Available Works - Potato pie - Abstract letterform detail showing a broad pale pink diagonal beside an off-white curve, with mottled paint texture, burgundy edges and small areas of yellow and deep green. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/0e4f8873-7dd4-4dfb-ad0e-345026ab299a/FullSizeRender.jpeg Available Works - Potato pie - Close-up of a grey-green angular shape outlined in burgundy beside golden yellow, with scattered charcoal marks, visible canvas weave and uneven layers of paint. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/voices monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/edfeaa94-422f-4e72-bd56-0a077388a084/IMG_2517.jpeg Available Works - Voices - Playful abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva, filled with colourful circles, looping forms, striped shapes and wavy lines in cobalt blue, yellow, burgundy, mint green and pink. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/70378f96-48c8-4e3a-ab52-393ca460ccbc/IMG_2518.jpeg Available Works - Voices - Expressive abstract painting detail with orange-red dots on muted blue, crossed by bright orange bands and bordered by pale pink curves and olive green shapes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/cb1a5c96-e958-4773-a5fb-a469f5583830/IMG_2520.jpeg Available Works - Voices - Colourful organic abstraction in close-up, with sweeping burgundy, ochre and pale blue bands beneath an olive green shape and red angular marks on yellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/9c73668c-07ea-42f2-b24e-f76c324fb5ea/IMG_2521.jpeg Available Works - Voices - Textured abstract art detail showing a purple circle within an irregular cream ring, surrounded by golden yellow, a broad plum-coloured curve and layered blue and white brushstrokes. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/microcosm-3 monthly 0.5 2026-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/c3dbf10c-8397-41d5-bcec-ac89a07e2d86/IMG_2380.jpeg Available Works - Microcosm 3 - Bold abstract painting by Anastasija Sarajeva, with vivid red rounded forms, small linked circles and jagged blue-grey shapes outlined in black over a textured peach, cream and ochre background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/c077f214-c055-446c-840e-99f1d8d9ad25/IMG_2383.jpeg Available Works - Microcosm 3 - Abstract painting detail featuring two red circles joined by thick black outlines, surrounded by angular blue-grey forms, salmon pink and patches of ochre and cream. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/d65d9a9b-9eef-477f-b084-f266d062d3af/IMG_2382.jpeg Available Works - Microcosm 3 - Close-up of layered paint texture, with a jagged blue-grey shape edged in black beneath red circular motifs, scattered yellow marks and mottled peach and charcoal. https://www.anastasijasarajeva.com/available-works/p/microcosm-1-original-colourful-abstract-painting monthly 0.5 2026-09-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/69b03b7b60e4857df12cd51f/dc99cf43-541f-4e63-9c7e-c8a967ddf45c/FullSizeRender.jpeg Available Works - 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