Keep Peace in Your Heart, My Dear, 2026

Dasha Pogodina   Best sellers Emerging artists

This artwork is shipped rolled in a protective tube (unstretched) for safe international delivery. The canvas includes an additional 2 inches (5 cm) of material on each side for professional stretching on a wooden frame. The dimensions stated in the listing refer to the final size of the artwork after stretching.

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

— Philippians 4:7 (KJV)

Can another person’s love become part of our inner peace? The artist reflects on those moments when the presence of someone we trust allows us to put aside our worries, even briefly. Sometimes peace comes from knowing that we do not have to face everything alone.

Within the  series, such moments become especially precious in memory. We may forget the conversations, the ordinary details, even the reasons we needed comfort, yet remember exactly how it felt to be safe beside someone.

The painting holds onto this experience of love as a quiet blessing, one we carry within us long after the moment itself has passed.

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.