Natasha Raskin Sharp
Natasha Raskin Sharp is a Scottish television presenter, and antiques and art expert, especially in Scottish contemporary art, best known for her appearances on television. The daughter of contemporary Scottish artist Philip Raskin, she has appeared in programmes in the UK and the US including Antiques Road Trip, Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, Flog It!, Bargain Hunt, For What It's Worth and Baggage Battles.
Family and education
She was born in 1986 in Glasgow, the middle of three children in a family of art lovers and collectors. Her father is the artist Philip Raskin, and her grandfather was former TV magician Max Raskin. Initially she studied law at the University of Leeds, but left her degree course after a month, taking the rest of the academic year off before going to the University of Glasgow to study a degree in History of Art.In 2016, she married Joe Sharp, a producer of Celebrity Antiques Road Trip whom she met in 2013. They reside in Glasgow. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter Jean in January 2024.
Career
After deciding that law was not for her, she had a placement with the Alice Temperley fashion house, and worked in the primary elections of 2008 for Barack Obama in New Hampshire, during which he referred to her as part of "the Scottish contingent" of his team, and provided her with a signed reference for her work.After returning to Scotland, she joined Glasgow auction house McTear's, as an auctioneer and latterly as Head of Pictures, dealing mainly with Scottish contemporary art. After her marriage, she now shares her auctioneering and valuation event duties at McTear's with her TV career. In 2021 she launched a new business auctioning artworks from the studios where they were made.