Daria Pochinskaya
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Daria Pochinskaya is a self-taught painter born in Belgorod, Russia. She came to painting through blogging in 2017 and taught herself from there. She works in oil, alla prima and layered technique, and paints figures in wind, fog and thickening air. She says her people are not powerless before nature, they are part of it. She was a finalist of the Contemporary Paintings Award in 2021.
Pochinskaya paints wet on wet when the piece calls for it and builds up in layers when it needs more depth. The figures are not idealized, they are physical and sensual. She is drawn to the seconds before a storm, the gust, the pause, the tension in the air. For her, those moments reflect the inner world of the human spirit, fragile and powerful at the same time.
Whispered Memory is about rain and being a child. Where Only Air Remains is a woman wrapped in blue who is barely there, painted in a layered technique for depth of tone. Dreammark is about a moment that hit once and left a mark, painted alla prima. Storm and stillness always exist side by side in her work.
