Title: Echoes of the Last Winter
Medium: Oil pastels on paper
Dimensions: 45 × 35 cm
Details: Signed front and back, varnished
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Collection: Climate Change Collection
£350
Description:
Echoes of the Last Winter is a haunting reflection on climate change and human fragility. Using expressive oil pastels and muted tones, Laura Bernardeschi Nelson captures a desolate landscape where ghostly figures wander through the remnants of a fading world. The soft grays, pale yellows, and textured strokes evoke both melancholy and quiet resilience. This work invites viewers to contemplate memory, loss, and the fragile balance between humanity and nature.
Title: City Underwater
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Oil pastels on paper, varnished
Dimensions: 45 x 35 cm
Framed: Yes
Price £350
Description:
City Underwater captures a haunting vision of our future — a world where once-vibrant urban life has sunk beneath rising tides. Through rich, textural strokes of oil pastel, Laura Bernardeschi Nelson transforms the familiar architecture of the city into a submerged dreamscape. Fish glide between the skeletons of buildings marked “Hospital” and “School,” while an octopus takes silent dominion over what was once human space.
This piece is both beautiful and devastating — a meditation on climate change and the fragility of human progress. The glimmering blues and silvery greys, sealed under a protective varnish, shimmer like refracted light beneath the sea, echoing the slow, inevitable drowning of civilization.
Each detail invites reflection: the floating debris, the ghostly silhouettes, the eerie calm that follows catastrophe. City Underwater is not just a warning — it is a requiem for a world we still have time to save.
Title: The Melting Silence
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Oil pastels on paper, varnished
Dimensions: 45 x 35 cm
Framed: Yes
£350
Description:
In The Melting Silence, Laura Bernardeschi Nelson portrays a fragile world at the edge of disappearance. Towering glaciers dissolve into a tranquil sea, their brilliant blues fading into the cold embrace of inevitability. Against a violet and gold sky, birds soar above the fading ice — witnesses to an ending, carriers of memory.
This haunting landscape captures the quiet tragedy of melting glaciers — once eternal, now ephemeral. The sun burns softly behind distant peaks, illuminating the last breath of frozen majesty before it yields to rising waters. Each pastel stroke, softened by varnish, holds both serenity and sorrow, echoing the delicate balance between beauty and loss.
The Melting Silence is not merely a landscape; it is a lament for a planet in flux. It reminds us that what we admire from afar today may soon exist only in art, memory, and warning.
Title: Thawing Boundaries
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Oil pastels on paper
Size: 45 × 35 cm
Year: 2025
Framed: Yes
Varnished: Yes
Signed: Yes (front and back)
Condition: Excellent
Description:
Thawing Boundaries evokes a landscape caught between winter’s stillness and the slow pulse of renewal. A fragile fence emerges from melting ground, its structure softened by time and shifting temperatures. Beyond it, snow-laden mountains and a violet sky shimmer in the light of change — a world both fading and reforming.
Through layered oil pastels and translucent varnish, Laura Bernardeschi Nelson captures the emotional resonance of a planet in flux. The work reflects on the delicate thresholds between nature and humanity, permanence and impermanence — where the ice recedes and life quietly returns.
This textured, atmospheric piece continues Nelson’s exploration of climate change, ecological awareness, and the human imprint on fragile environments.
Framed and ready to hang.
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