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Title: Among the Green Silence (2025)
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 80 x 60 cm
Signed: Front and reverse
In Among the Green Silence, Laura Bernardeschi Nelson uses layered acrylics to render a lush, sun-drenched forest at the height of summer. Through a careful build-up of translucent and opaque layers, she creates a textured, immersive environment. The color palette pulses with vibrant life: emerald greens, golden foliage, and deep shadows all contribute to the feeling of standing within a living, breathing woodland.
Broad, confident brushstrokes form the trunks and canopy, while lighter, finer detailing evokes shifting sunlight and subtle motion among the leaves. The artist’s technique of layering allows light to filter through the surface, creating a natural sense of depth and atmosphere. This is not a flat landscape—it’s a multi-dimensional space, both visual and emotional, that draws the viewer inward.
Among the Green Silence is more than a depiction of nature—it is a meditation on stillness and presence. For Laura , the summer forest becomes a sanctuary, a space free from distraction where she can engage in quiet reflection. Each painted layer echoes the idea that our inner lives, like nature, are complex and evolving—made of growth, shadow, warmth, and openness.
The silence of the forest is not empty—it is alive, filled with breath, light, and unseen rhythms. This silence offers something modern life often cannot: a return to the essential, the authentic self, grounded and whole. Through this work, Nelson invites us to enter that same silence, to dwell for a moment among the trees, and to remember the restorative power of the natural world.
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