Darina Komorowski
Artist
Darina Komorowski (b. 1995, Kazakhstan; lives and works in Dubai, UAE) is a painter. At the center of her practice is flora - flowers, leaves, branches. She chooses this motif not as decoration but as a way to speak about the human condition. For her, the flower is an ambivalent symbol of life and fragility: outward beauty is often read as a sign of well-being, while inner experiences remain hidden. She is drawn to stories concealed inside bouquets and human destinies -what is given and what remains ungiven, what is left unsaid, compromise, endurance, and the waiting for support.
Through the image of flowers she reflects gently on what is rarely visible at first: responsibility and maturity, invisible labor and lives behind polished surfaces, the price of things, attention and choice. In her work, the flower becomes both a gesture of giving and a reminder of time -its irreversibility, a need for protection, and an urge to grow toward light. She maintains a life-affirming tone, speaking about complexity without diminishing feelings or lived experience.
Her visual language is concise, fragmented, and intensified in color. She works with open hues, contrast, and simplified form to convey the intensity of inner experience - how emotion is felt from within more strongly than it appears from the outside. She hopes that viewers will notice their own thoughts, memories, and states, recognize a personal truth, and feel entitled to attentive presence.

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If you look at a painting you truly love, you can remember almost everything.
Everything that once made you happy.

The feeling of touching the skin of a loved one, the scent of lilac in early spring when you were coming home, the taste of cherries waiting for you when you arrived. The feeling of sand under your feet and the sound of waves rolling onto the shore during your last seaside holiday.
A few moments of happiness - your mother’s scent, a child’s smile, a first kiss,
your grandmother’s hands.

A painting at home can give you the chance to relive it all, because what truly moves us changes the space around us. And perhaps, with it, life itself.

With love, Darina. I’m glad you’re here.

“There is nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent van Gogh, letter to Theo van Gogh, 1888.
Reasons to notice 2026
This series marks a new stage in my artistic practice. Although it touches upon melancholy, it is not about suffering. I am more interested in the moments that exist alongside it — the small, ordinary things that make life feel worth noticing.
The series is dominated by shades of pink. In Russian, there is an expression meaning “to take off your rose-coloured glasses” — to stop seeing the world too optimistically and face reality as it is. I want to do the opposite. I want to keep my rose-coloured glasses on and see the world a little brighter.
For me, pink is not about illusion or denial. It is a conscious choice to notice beauty, tenderness, humour and joy in everyday life. A family dinner, a morning, a child, a flower, a familiar object — things that can seem insignificant until we realise how much of our lives they actually hold.
This is where the title A Reason to Notice comes from. I believe that, to some extent, we shape our reality through what we choose to give our attention to. What we notice, remember and allow ourselves to see gradually becomes the reality we experience.
Through these paintings, I want to create something worth noticing — something that can make a person pause, smile, remember something they love, or simply feel a little better.
I want to believe that love, humour and joy have the power to shape the world. Through my art, I choose to stand on their side.

A place for you
2026
acrylic on canvas
120x100 cm
available for purchase
Faith, Hope, Love
2026
acrylic on canvas
120x90 cm
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Safe Haven
2026
acrylic on canvas
120x100 cm
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The unlived
2026
acrylic on canvas
85x205 cm
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Cradle
2026
acrylic on canvas
85x205 cm
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“There is nothing more genuinely artistic than to love people.”
— Vincent van Gogh, letter to Theo van Gogh, 1888.
Stasis 2026
Stasis is about external stillness and internal movement. It is a state in which we cannot move forward, although everything inside us continues to happen.
The two works, Let the Battle End and Let the Battle Be Won, speak about the internal struggle with our own thoughts and the desire to finally move beyond it.
In nature, nothing truly stops. Everything continues to move, grow and change.
Let the battle end
2026
acrylic on canvas
120x100 cm
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Let the battle be won
2026
acrylic on canvas
120x90 cm
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Pleasure
2026
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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Space
2026
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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Ambivalence
2026
acrylic on canvas
50x70 cm
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Equality 2026
Equality continues the idea of dividing the painting into two parts: a vivid floral image and a simple, saturated background.

Here, the background becomes gold. If in earlier works it represented the social world surrounding us, gold shifts its meaning towards value.
The series is about the idea that every life has value. I want to learn to see each person not through their status, role, or difference, but as something inherently precious.
It is also about recognising the equal value of every living presence.
What matters most
2026
acrylic on canvas
120x90 cm
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Evening dusk
2026
acrylic on canvas
50x40 cm
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First love
2026
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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Golden roses
2026
acrylic on canvas
50x40 cm
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Balance
2026
acrylic on canvas
120x90 cm
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Golden evening
2026
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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Monologue
2026, acrilyc on canvas, 120x90

Flowers, to me, reflect with great precision what is most alive and most essential in a person. A flower embodies life and naturalness, something basic that exists in each of us. And yet it is vulnerable: it has no will in the human sense, no complex psychological mechanisms, no defences. There is only an impulse toward life, toward light, warmth, growth and happiness.
It is within this contrast that my conversation about human relationships begins. What is most important and most tender in us is, in its essence, deeply “floral”: the desire for love, acceptance and closeness, the impulse to grow, the ability to live through bloom and to respect our own fading. At the same time, in humans these simple impulses are often distorted and amplified. The desire for more, psychological defences, greed, anger, envy. I don’t label these as bad. In many ways they serve a protective function: they hide a person’s vulnerability from themselves, because touching it can be unbearably painful.
I feel that through the image of flowers it becomes possible to speak about relationships gently, humanely and in a life-affirming way. To remind a person that they are alive and that they are part of a larger cycle of life.
Fragments of memory 2026
First light
2026
acrylic on canvas
30x40 cm
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In the small hours
2026
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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Gloaming roses
2026
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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A goodbye to…
2026
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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Delicacy
2026
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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September
2026
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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Showery
2026
acrylic on canvas
30x40 cm
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Metamorphosis Series 2025-2026
Metamorphoses is about how we come to understand ourselves through contact with other people and the world around us.

People leave traces within us — they support us, hurt us, and change us. Sometimes, after certain experiences, returning to our previous state is no longer possible.

Like plants, we are constantly interacting with our environment while remaining connected to our own nature.

2026
acrylic on canvas
158x79 cm
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Contact me
2025
acrylic on canvas
50x50 cm
available for purchase
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The presence of life
2025
acrylic on canvas
two pieces artwork 180x90 cm
Velvet evening
2025
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
Gift
2025
acrylic on canvas
two pieces artwork 180x90 cm
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What we leave behind
2026, acrylic on canvas, 120x90

The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” — Pablo Picasso
Joy in bloom 2025
Joy in Bloom is a series about warm memories that live with us and stay for a long time. It holds a summer morning at a grandmother’s country house, the first day of school, a best friend, first love, a first bouquet. Such moments do not require proof: they simply flare up inside and bring warmth.

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School bouquet
2025
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm

2025
acrylic on canvas
two pieces artwork 180x90 cm
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Sunny bouquet
2025
acrylic on canvas
90x60 cm
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2026
acrylic on canvas
120x90 cm

“You know what Mom always says? You can be whatever you want to in life, as long as you don’t become a critic! Not of other people, and not of yourself. It’s so easy to be a critic, any coward can do that. But art doesn’t need critics, art has enough enemies already. Art needs friends.”

— Fredrik Backman, My Friends
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Best regards, Darina