The Last Bloom

Oil pastel on paper, 45 × 35 cm—framed, signed, varnished
Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

Price £890

The Last Bloom portrays a deeply evocative moment set within a dark, transforming forest. In the centre of a glowing passage of yellow light, a young girl offers a single flower to an elder figure—two silhouettes meeting in a moment that feels both timeless and urgent.

The surrounding trees close in like ancient witnesses, their forms blurred and roughened by years of drought and environmental change. The contrast between the shadowed forest and the warm halo around the figures heightens the sense of a rare, sacred exchange.

The flower becomes the axis of the story:
perhaps the final survivor of a dying landscape,
or perhaps the first sign of rebirth after a long period of absence.

A lone blue bloom in the foreground reinforces the fragile persistence of life. Through expressive strokes, layered textures, and an arresting play of light and shadow, the artwork speaks of intergenerational connection, ecological fragility, and the quiet hope that can still grow even when the world is changing.