Pollution’s Ghosts
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Oil pastels, mixed media (recycled bubble wrap), and varnish on paper
Dimensions: 45 × 35 cm (unframed) — framed and ready to hang
Signed: Front and back
Year: 2025
Price £ 890
Description:
Pollution’s Ghosts captures the fragile beauty of marine life dissolving into the shifting currents of a changing ocean. Created with layered oil pastels and recycled bubble wrap, the piece evokes ethereal jellyfish suspended between existence and disappearance — a haunting metaphor for the loss of biodiversity in our polluted seas.
The use of transparent, reflective textures transforms industrial waste into something organic and luminous, underscoring the tension between creation and destruction. Varnished for protection and light gloss, this work embodies both environmental awareness and poetic melancholy.
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