Daria Shugaieva
Artist & Designer
Artist & Designer
Artist Statement
My work explores the emotional landscape of transformation — the fragile moments when a person leaves behind what once felt safe to step into the unknown. I focus on vulnerability not as weakness, but as a quiet strength that initiates growth.
Recurring symbols such as eggs, birds, balloons, and rising forms represent the stages of becoming: protection, tension, emergence, and finally — freedom. The egg embodies the inner threshold between safety and courage; its breaking marks the beginning of personal awakening. Birds and floating elements reflect the soul’s upward movement, while vibrant colors and rhythmic patterns celebrate emotional release and self-discovery.
Inspired by my own journey of starting anew in a new country while balancing motherhood and artistic pursuit, I approach painting as both personal reflection and universal narrative. I work primarily with oil and acrylic, layering textures and light to create luminous surfaces that enhance depth and emotional resonance.
Ultimately, my art invites viewers to reconnect with their inner courage — to honor fragility as beauty, change as possibility, and growth as the truest form of luxury: time, freedom, and peace.
Recurring symbols such as eggs, birds, balloons, and rising forms represent the stages of becoming: protection, tension, emergence, and finally — freedom. The egg embodies the inner threshold between safety and courage; its breaking marks the beginning of personal awakening. Birds and floating elements reflect the soul’s upward movement, while vibrant colors and rhythmic patterns celebrate emotional release and self-discovery.
Inspired by my own journey of starting anew in a new country while balancing motherhood and artistic pursuit, I approach painting as both personal reflection and universal narrative. I work primarily with oil and acrylic, layering textures and light to create luminous surfaces that enhance depth and emotional resonance.
Ultimately, my art invites viewers to reconnect with their inner courage — to honor fragility as beauty, change as possibility, and growth as the truest form of luxury: time, freedom, and peace.
Collection
"New Beginnings"
"New Beginnings"
New Beginnings is a collection born from the raw, uncomfortable stage of starting life over. In these works, the egg becomes my central symbol—at once a container of life, a fragile shell, and a metaphor for the human spirit on the verge of change. Each cracked surface reflects the vulnerability we feel when everything familiar falls apart and we must face the unknown again.
The figures emerging from these shells appear fragile, lost, yet undeniably curious—leaning toward new possibilities even when they feel unsteady.
Through delicate faces, broken shells, and small blooming details, I explore that tender moment between fear and hope, when we are forced to reinvent ourselves and discover who we might become beyond the shell we outgrew.
The figures emerging from these shells appear fragile, lost, yet undeniably curious—leaning toward new possibilities even when they feel unsteady.
Through delicate faces, broken shells, and small blooming details, I explore that tender moment between fear and hope, when we are forced to reinvent ourselves and discover who we might become beyond the shell we outgrew.
Collection
"Uprising Dreams"
"Uprising Dreams"
Uprising Dreams is a collection about the courage to let our hopes rise, even when life feels uncertain. The circles become dreams in motion—some bright and confident, others gently shaded, still forming their shape. Their upward movement reflects the quiet persistence of the human spirit, the way our inner wishes lift themselves despite doubt.
Vertical color bands symbolize a new emotional palette, an intentional choice to bring light, joy and softness back into life. They remind us that happiness is something we must dare to paint ourselves.
This series speaks to emotional maturity: the strength to meet our inner child with tenderness, to protect their dreams instead of silencing them, and to keep seeing beauty even when everything feels complicated. “Uprising Dreams” celebrates the moment we choose color, hope and rebirth—again and again.”
Vertical color bands symbolize a new emotional palette, an intentional choice to bring light, joy and softness back into life. They remind us that happiness is something we must dare to paint ourselves.
This series speaks to emotional maturity: the strength to meet our inner child with tenderness, to protect their dreams instead of silencing them, and to keep seeing beauty even when everything feels complicated. “Uprising Dreams” celebrates the moment we choose color, hope and rebirth—again and again.”
Collection
"Ethereal"
"Ethereal"
Ethereal is a collection that explores the quiet places where emotion dissolves into light. These works drift between abstraction and atmosphere, capturing the weightlessness of moments we can feel but cannot fully name. Soft clouds of color merge and separate like shifting states of mind—calm, longing, hope, renewal.
Flashes of bright pink and luminous yellow act as emotional sparks: sudden clarity, fragile joy, intuitive truth, passion. The layered blues and greens offer a sense of openness, like breathing deeper after holding too much inside. Colors strive to become emotions.
This series is about entering a state where reality feels softer, where thoughts move like mist, and where the inner world becomes an expansive sky.
Ethereal invites the viewer to pause, float, and rediscover the tenderness within themselves.
Flashes of bright pink and luminous yellow act as emotional sparks: sudden clarity, fragile joy, intuitive truth, passion. The layered blues and greens offer a sense of openness, like breathing deeper after holding too much inside. Colors strive to become emotions.
This series is about entering a state where reality feels softer, where thoughts move like mist, and where the inner world becomes an expansive sky.
Ethereal invites the viewer to pause, float, and rediscover the tenderness within themselves.
Gallery
Delivery
Courier delivery
Within the U.S. from 3 to 10 business days
We do next day free delivery in Miami area
Contacts
Address: Miami, Florida, USA
Email: dariashuga@gmail.com