She lasted exactly one month studying law at Leeds before admitting it was a mistake. That single decision is why Natasha Raskin Sharp ended up as Head of Pictures at a Glasgow auction house instead of in a courtroom, and eventually on Bargain Hunt. She grew up in a family of artists and collectors, tried a few other lives first, and then went straight back to the thing she had known since childhood.

Natasha Raskin Sharp: Quick Facts

Full name	Natasha Raskin Sharp
Born	15 June 1986
Age	40
Birthplace	Glasgow, Scotland
Father	Philip Raskin, contemporary Scottish artist
Grandfather	Max Raskin, television magician
Family	Middle of three children
First degree attempt	Law at the University of Leeds, left after one month
Degree	History of Art, University of Glasgow
Auction house	McTear’s, Glasgow — auctioneer, then Head of Pictures
Husband	Joe Sharp, a Celebrity Antiques Road Trip producer
Daughter	Jean, born January 2024

Who Is Natasha Raskin Sharp?

Natasha Raskin Sharp was born on 15 June 1986 in Glasgow, which makes her 40. She is an auctioneer, an art specialist and one of the most familiar experts across BBC daytime, appearing on Bargain Hunt, Antiques Road Trip, Celebrity Antiques Road Trip and Flog It!. Like the rest of the UK antiques TV experts, the saleroom came first and television followed.

Born Into an Art Family

This is the part that explains everything. Her father is the contemporary Scottish artist Philip Raskin, and her grandfather was the television magician Max Raskin. She was the middle of three children in a household of art lovers and collectors. Growing up surrounded by paintings, and by adults who talked seriously about them, gives you an education you cannot buy later. She had been looking at pictures properly since before she could have explained why.

The Law Degree That Lasted a Month

She went to the University of Leeds to study law and left after one month. There is something admirable about that. Most people who realise in the first weeks that they have chosen wrong grind on anyway, out of embarrassment or inertia, and lose three years. She cut it immediately and went to the University of Glasgow to read History of Art instead, which was, plainly, the subject she had been preparing for her whole childhood.

Alice Temperley and the Obama Campaign

Before settling into the art world she did two things that sound like they belong to different people entirely. She worked briefly with the fashion house Alice Temperley, and she worked on the 2008 Obama campaign in New Hampshire. Neither has anything obvious to do with auctioneering. Both suggest somebody who was willing to try things, which is exactly the temperament that eventually made her comfortable standing at a rostrum.

McTear’s and Head of Pictures

She joined the Glasgow auction house McTear’s as an auctioneer and later became Head of Pictures, specialising mainly in Scottish contemporary art. That is a serious specialist role. Heading a picture department means cataloguing, attributing, condition-reporting and pricing artworks, then persuading both sellers and buyers that your judgement is sound. It is also, given her father’s profession, a field she understood from the inside.

Her Own Business

In 2021 she launched a business auctioning artworks directly from artists’ studios, which is a genuinely interesting idea. The traditional auction model deals in art that has already been owned, often several times over. Selling straight from the studio cuts out that history and puts the money in the living artist’s hands. Coming from the daughter of a working painter, that is not a coincidence.

Marriage to Joe Sharp

She met Joe Sharp, a producer on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip, in 2013 and they married in 2016, although you will see 2017 given on some sites. They live in Glasgow. Marrying somebody who works on the programme you appear on is not unusual in a small industry, and it means she is married to a person who understands exactly why she is away in a car in Shropshire for three weeks.

Becoming a Mother

She gave birth to a daughter, Jean, in January 2024. She has spoken publicly about becoming a mother, but has not turned her child into content, and there is little else on record. Balancing a filming schedule that involves driving around the country for days at a time with a small child at home is a genuinely difficult arrangement, and one a great many people watching daytime television will recognise.

Her Radio Work

Less well known is that she has a substantial radio career. She presented segments on BBC Radio Scotland’s The Music Match and hosted her own weekly music programme from 2017 to 2025. Eight years of weekly radio is a serious commitment and a completely different discipline from valuing pictures. It also explains why she is so comfortable talking to camera: she has spent years talking to nobody at all, in a booth.

Baggage Battles and Other Shows

Beyond the BBC output she appeared in the American series Baggage Battles, which follows buyers bidding on unclaimed luggage and freight, and guested on For What It’s Worth with Fern Britton in 2016. The American format is a useful contrast: louder, more confrontational, built on the gamble of buying sight-unseen. British antiques television, as our hub explains, prefers politeness and small margins.

Scottish Art and Why It Matters

Her specialism is worth explaining. Scottish art has a distinct and loyal collecting market, from the Colourists through to a strong contemporary scene, and Glasgow in particular has produced generations of significant artists. A picture specialist working in that market is not dealing in leftovers from London. She is working in a serious field with its own history, its own buyers and its own price structure.

What Is Her Net Worth?

No verified figure exists and we will not offer one. She has had a salaried auction house career, launched her own business, presented eight years of radio and appeared across multiple television series, which together represent a substantial working life. None of it is publicly documented in financial terms. Sites quoting precise sums are guessing, exactly as they do with Christina Trevanion and everyone else in this trade.

A Changed Auction Room

A great deal has shifted. Auctioneering, and picture departments in particular, were overwhelmingly male professions within living memory. Natasha heading a picture department, alongside Christina Trevanion running her own firm and Izzie Balmer qualifying as a gemmologist, has changed who a general audience pictures when they imagine an expert. In a trade struggling to recruit, that visibility matters.

How a Picture Department Works

Heading a picture department is a specific and demanding job. Every work has to be attributed, which means deciding who painted it and how confident you are. It has to be condition-reported honestly, including any restoration. It has to be researched for provenance, because ownership history affects value enormously. Then it has to be priced in a way that tempts buyers without insulting the seller. Getting any of those four wrong costs somebody real money.

Why Radio and Auctioneering Fit Together

It is not obvious until you think about it, but eight years of weekly radio is excellent training for a rostrum. Both jobs require filling time confidently, reading a room you cannot fully see, and keeping momentum when nothing much is happening. Both punish hesitation. Anyone who has done live broadcasting will recognise the particular calm that auctioneers have, and anyone who has watched the Bangers and Cash cast sell a car will have seen the same thing.

Final Thoughts

Natasha Raskin Sharp is 40, grew up among her father’s paintings, walked out of a law degree after four weeks and ended up running a picture department in Glasgow. Add eight years of radio, a business selling art straight from artists’ studios and a daughter born in 2024, and you have one of the most genuinely interesting people in British daytime television. Watch her on the art lots.

Frequently Asked Questions

How old is Natasha Raskin Sharp?

She was born on 15 June 1986 in Glasgow, which makes her 40 years old as of August 2026.

Who is Natasha Raskin Sharp’s husband?

She is married to Joe Sharp, a producer on Celebrity Antiques Road Trip. They met in 2013 and married in 2016.

Who is Natasha Raskin Sharp’s father?

Her father is Philip Raskin, a contemporary Scottish artist. Her grandfather was the television magician Max Raskin.

What did Natasha Raskin Sharp study?

She began a law degree at Leeds but left after one month, then read History of Art at the University of Glasgow.

Where did Natasha Raskin Sharp work?

At the Glasgow auction house McTear’s, as an auctioneer and later Head of Pictures, specialising in Scottish contemporary art.

Does Natasha Raskin Sharp have children?

Yes. She gave birth to a daughter, Jean, in January 2024. She and her husband live in Glasgow.

Disclaimer: This article is for general information and is not valuation advice. Biographical details come from published reference sources and broadcaster credits. Where sources conflict, such as on the year of her marriage, we say so. We do not publish estimated net worth figures.