The Silent Wake: Gothic Art by Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

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Title: The Silent Wake

Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson
Medium: Oil pastels on paper
Size: Approximately 40 x 30 cm (15.7 x 11.8 inches)
Framed: Yes (sold framed and ready to hang)
Year: 2025
Original artwork
Signed: Yes
Shipping: Professionally packaged for secure delivery

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🌑 Artwork Description:

Beneath a violet sky and veils of snow, a ghostly silence grips the graveyard. Trees, twisted and bare, stretch toward the heavens like skeletal hands. A narrow path leads to a frozen hut — its light faint, flickering — the only warmth in this chilling world. In The Silent Wake, artist Laura Bernardeschi Nelson conjures a scene of spectral beauty, where time feels frozen and the veil between worlds, impossibly thin.

Created with expressive oil pastels, this original work captures the stark contrasts of life and death, warmth and cold, presence and absence. The icy palette of purples, greys, and whites intensifies the sense of desolation, while subtle glows from within the hut suggest lingering souls or a final vigil in the beyond.

Perfect for lovers of gothic and macabre art, or collectors seeking atmospheric works with narrative depth, The Silent Wake is both haunting and poetic — an invitation to step into a winter realm where the living dare not linger.