Garden Where Light Rests: A Dreamlike Landscape by Laura Bernardeschi Nelson , for sale

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Title: Garden Where Light Rests
Medium: Oil pastels and palette knife on paper
Dimensions (approx.):
Artwork: 36 x 38 cm
Framed: 46 x 36 cm
Framed: Yes — sold framed as pictured
Signed: Front and back
Varnished: Yes
Orientation: Horizontal

Description:
Garden Where Light Rests is a verdant, dreamlike landscape celebrating the bloom of spring and the serenity of shaded woodland paths. The composition draws the viewer down a gentle corridor of trees, their canopies arching to form a loose, floral cathedral that invites stillness and breath.

Vibrant swathes of red, yellow, pink, and violet spill across the grassy foreground, while soft reflections ripple through a stream that winds through the mid-ground. The trees — loose yet grounded — lean inward with subtle intention, guiding the eye toward a hazy, luminous clearing at the heart of the piece. This central glow gives the impression of a sacred pause — a moment suspended in green light.

Created using oil pastels applied with both fingers and palette knives, the work layers rough impasto against soft blending, generating an immersive texture. The artist has allowed abstraction to brush against representation — flowers become color fields, trees dissolve into gesture, and water flickers between reflection and movement.

This is not just a place to be seen, but to be felt. Garden Where Light Rests offers a gentle escape from the logical world, inviting viewers to wander and lose themselves in the spaces between branches, color, and memory.