Our Greece Morning (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
Our Greece Morning belongs to the Madeleine series, where memory is reconstructed through sensory fragments rather than linear narrative. In this work, a bouquet of sunflowers set against blue-and-white stripes evokes the atmosphere of a particular place without describing it directly. The painting captures Greece not as a view, but as an imprint: light, color, warmth, and the intimacy of an ordinary morning.
What gives the work its strength is its economy. A simple still life becomes a vessel for affection and recollection, showing how memory often survives in small visual codes rather than in events themselves. Within the logic of Madeleine, the painting reflects on how travel, love, and daily ritual are absorbed into the inner archive and return later as condensed emotional images.

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: 65 x 60 x 2cm (unframed) / 65 x 60cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: People and portraits