Take Our Wisdom and Strength, My Love (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
Take Our Wisdom and Strength, My Love belongs to the Madeleine series, where memory appears as something intimate, inherited, and emotionally charged rather than fixed or factual. The two female figures, set against a quiet orchard and holding red fruit like an offering, evoke a scene of transmission: care, experience, and inner resilience passed from one presence to another.
What gives the work its force is its quiet clarity. This is not simply an image of companionship, but of feminine knowledge made visible — wisdom carried through tenderness, repetition, and shared endurance. In the context of Madeleine, the painting reads as a reflection on how memory is held not only in events, but in gestures, symbols, and the felt continuity between women, love, and survival.

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: 94 x 94 x 2cm (unframed) / 94 x 94cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: People and portraits