Title: The Path Beyond Noise (2025)
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Acrylic on canvas with wood shavings hand-applied to the surface
Dimensions: 60 x 80 x 2 cm
Signed: Front and reverse
Presentation: Unframed, edges painted, ready to hang
Price £ 560
The Path Beyond Noise is a contemplative forestscape in which Laura Bernardeschi Nelson captures the serene depth of an autumnal woodland using layered acrylics and embedded wood shavings, creating a tactile bridge between the artwork and the natural world it portrays. The added organic material subtly enhances the surface, grounding the painting in physical nature and reinforcing the artist’s long-standing pursuit of reconnecting art to the environment.
Tall tree trunks create a vertical rhythm that guides the viewer’s gaze toward a softly illuminated vanishing point. Warm tones—burnt sienna, crimson, and soft ochres—intertwine with cooler touches of pale blue and delicate light effects to evoke the crisp quiet of a forest floor in autumn. The layered technique allows the foliage to shimmer while textured shadows stretch across the path, forming a scene that feels both peaceful and alive.
As with much of Laura’s work, the painting extends beyond landscape. It is a meditation on solitude, clarity, and the soul’s deep desire to escape the noise of modern life—gossip, superficiality, and societal pressure—and return to the grounding presence of Mother Nature. The forest becomes symbolic: the trees, stoic and unjudging; the light, a gentle form of understanding; the path, a guide toward inner stillness.
The addition of real wood shavings reinforces the theme of climate awareness by physically reincorporating elements of the natural world into the artwork, reminding us of the delicate ecosystems we risk losing. Through The Path Beyond Noise, Nelson invites viewers to step into a quiet, sacred space—one where authenticity, reflection, and environmental connection can be rediscovered.
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