Title: Scars of the Silent Forest (2025)
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Acrylic, spray paint, and wood shavings on stretched canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 80 x 2 cm
Signed: Front and reverse
Finish: Varnished
Presentation: Unframed but ready to hang
Price : £560
Scars of the Silent Forest forms part of Laura Bernardeschi Nelson’s climate-change collection, a body of work that confronts environmental destruction with emotional depth and visual intensity. This painting depicts a devastated woodland—trees cut down, burnt, and left unreplaced. Their hollow stumps and charred remains stand as open wounds on the land, symbols of a forest silenced.
Using acrylics and spray paint, the artist creates a dark, atmospheric palette layered with swirling forms that evoke both instability and loss. The embedded wood shavings scattered across the surface physically reconnect the artwork to the natural world while emphasizing the fragility of what remains—tiny fragments of what once stood tall.
Haloed stumps glow with ghostly color shifts, while deep circular voids suggest the collapse of life systems and habitats. The distant line of thin, leafless trunks reinforces the narrative of abandonment and irreversible change.
With this mixed-media approach, Laura expresses both ecological destruction and its emotional echo—grief, emptiness, and the unsettling truth of a world altered by human impact.
Scars of the Silent Forest stands as a powerful reminder: when a forest is taken, the land remembers.
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