Vibrant Oil Pastels of Nature with Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

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Title: “Echoes Beneath the Surface”
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Original oil pastel on paper
Dimensions: 35 x 25 cm, horizontal orientation
Status: Sold, framed

In Echoes Beneath the Surface, Laura Bernardeschi Nelson draws on the lyrical essence of Impressionism to evoke a dreamscape of light and reflection. Inspired by the atmospheric poetry of Claude Monet, this oil pastel composition transforms a quiet pond into a canvas of shifting tones—where light dances, forms dissolve, and color whispers.

Delicate hues of aquamarine, lavender, and pale green drift together like mist over water. Soft magenta blooms, perhaps water lilies, seem to hover more than float—suspended in a reverie of brushless strokes and blurred edges. In the background, a suggestion of wooden planks or a shaded structure peeks through the foliage, hinting at the world beyond.

More than a scene, this is a mood: transient, intimate, and quietly radiant. Through her expressive pastel technique, Bernardeschi Nelson captures not just the surface of nature, but its fleeting breath—an echo felt more than seen.

Title: “Where Wild Colors Grow”
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Original oil pastel on paper, varnished and signed on both sides
Dimensions: 35 x 25 cm, horizontal orientation
Status: Sold, framed

In Where Wild Colors Grow, Laura Bernardeschi Nelson captures a vibrant, untamed garden where color itself becomes a living force. Blossoms of crimson, fuchsia, and golden yellow ignite the landscape, blooming from the forest floor and climbing up into a canopy of cool green and blue. The scene feels at once imagined and remembered—a fleeting vision of a secret place where nature dances freely.

The oil pastels swirl and layer with expressive texture, suggesting filtered light, shadowed paths, and the soft hum of water flowing just beyond view. Here, the natural world is alive with movement, not from detail but from rhythm—from the emotional cadence of color and gesture.

Impressionism lives in every mark of Bernardeschi Nelson’s hand: loose, instinctive, and intimate. This piece invites the viewer to wander—not just into a forest clearing, but into a moment of wild serenity, where imagination meets earth and memory becomes bloom.

Title: “Still Waters Remember”
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Original oil pastel on paper, varnished and signed on both sides
Dimensions: 35 x 25 cm, horizontal orientation
Status: Sold, framed

In Still Waters Remember, Laura Bernardeschi Nelson invites us into a secluded pond where reflections and memories blend seamlessly into one another. The vibrant interplay of green, amber, and violet hues evokes a world both deeply natural and quietly surreal, as if the water itself is holding onto the impressions of passing clouds, drifting leaves, and seasons long gone.

Across the surface, ripples of white and blush-pink catch the light, suggesting scattered petals or the delicate wake of a breeze just passed. Beneath them, layered strokes of earthy ochre and moody purples speak to the pond’s hidden depths—rich with time, silence, and the quiet life below.

This piece is not about clarity, but sensation—the shimmer of a glance, the texture of stillness. Through her expressive pastel technique, Bernardeschi Nelson continues in the spirit of the Impressionists, turning light and color into emotion, and a humble pond into a vessel for wonder.