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Inner Growth
Medium: Oil pastels on paper
Size: 45 x 35 cm (framed)
Year: 2026
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Presentation: Signed, varnished, and professionally framed
Description:
Inner Growth explores the fragile and complex process of emotional development. Created with oil pastels, the work combines softness and intensity, allowing layers of colour and line to emerge in an intuitive and expressive way.
The organic, spiral forms suggest movement, cycles, and the continuous unfolding of the self. They resemble both natural growth and internal patterns of thought—moments that repeat, evolve, and transform over time. The vivid pink background evokes emotional depth, vulnerability, and the intensity of lived experience, while the intersecting lines introduce a sense of tension, connection, and unseen structures beneath the surface.
Philosophically, the painting reflects on growth not as a linear progression, but as a series of returns—circles within circles—where healing and understanding develop through repetition and awareness. It speaks to the quiet resilience required to navigate inner change, and to the beauty that can emerge from emotional complexity.
This work invites the viewer to consider their own processes of becoming, recognising that growth often happens in ways that are not immediately visible, but deeply felt.