Original artwork description:

ABOUT THE ARTWORK

"Angel Painting - Secret Garden" is a serene depiction of tranquility and hidden beauty. A graceful figure with delicate wings, clothed in a rich, stands contemplatively amidst a lush garden. Her peaceful posture suggests a moment of quiet reflection or a silent communion with nature.

The background blooms with floral patterns and ripe, red fruits, symbolizing abundance and growth. Vivid blue irises rise from the greenery, enhancing the sense of a secluded paradise. The artist employs a soft, rounded brushwork technique, giving the painting a sense of warmth and intimacy.

The colors are harmonious and calming, with the angel's blue dress providing a striking contrast to the warm tones of the arched backdrop, evoking a sense of depth and sacred space. This artwork is a visual meditation on the themes of inner peace, the nurturing aspect of nature, and the idea of a personal haven that provides solace to the soul.
Inner Garden Series. Daria explores the possibility of self-identification of a person from fragments of cultures and concepts, her works actualize the thirst for the integrity of the individual in the ever-changing cycle of ideas and meanings. The artist asks about the possibility of being an integral person in the metamodern era, characterized by oscillation between polar concepts and rethinking of fundamental ideas of the past. Her work is an inner response to the question of what integrality is and whether there is a need to strive for certain ideals.

Her work is also an external response to the totalitarian concepts that still exist in society. Concepts that are imposed from above require a false integrity, namely a certain ideology, and persecute everything that goes beyond these concepts. Born at the crossroads of Ukrainian and Russian cultures during the collapse of the Soviet Union, Daria manifests the norm of fragmentation as the norm, replacing the demands of integrity with the idea of accepting otherness as unconditional beauty. Her characters build their own world in which culture has not become a dictatorship - the world that Daria considers her home.

Here is what Daria herself says about her works

I draw hybrid creatures and symbols of an anthropomorphic world because I feel like a hybrid of cultures and identities. I desire wholeness, I love to see it in others, but I feel fragmented in myself. My paintings are my way of coming to terms with my own fragmented identity, and my way of showing that the beautiful does not always have to fit into an already existing framework.

Materials used:

Oil, Acrylic

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