One More Chapter (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Dasha Pogodina

This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
One More Chapter belongs to the Madeleine series, where memory is reconstructed through intimate, emotionally charged fragments of everyday life. In this painting, reading becomes more than a quiet domestic act: it marks a pause in time, a threshold where solitude, tenderness, and recollection begin to merge.
Surrounded by flowers and the calm presence of animals, the female figure inhabits a space of temporary shelter — a place where the self can withdraw, reflect, and continue. The title suggests not only the next page of a book, but the quiet persistence of inner life: the decision to remain open to memory, feeling, and the unfinished narrative of one’s own becoming.

Madeleine series
In the Madeleine series, Daria Pogodina turns to the phenomenon of involuntary memory, known in psychology and culture as the “Proust effect.” The artist explores how ordinary objects and sensory impressions from the past are transformed into emotional anchors—inner pillars of the self.
The objects and images chosen by the author—such as a mother’s sweater, childhood food, or the voice of a television announcer—become points of access to the unconscious resources of the psyche, places of comfort and stabilization. Without falling into nostalgic idealization, Pogodina captures the subtle mechanism of interaction between the conscious and the unconscious, where the mundane becomes sacred, and seemingly banal details acquire profound meaning.
These works are not about escaping the present into the past, but about seeking inner light and strength in both personal and collective experience—a testament to the human ability to find resilience in the everyday during times of crisis.

Materials used:

Acrylic

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 90 x 100 x 2cm (unframed) / 90 x 100cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: People and portraits