Laura Bernardeschi Nelson shares her artistic journey, transforming her garden into a vibrant living installation as she battles anxiety. Through innovative projects using recycled materials like CDs and vinyl records, she creates a colorful sanctuary. Emphasizing the importance of creativity, she encourages others to challenge mundane norms and embrace artistic expression.
Tag Archives: fine-art
Frames of Resilience
This art piece employs oil pastels on paper, showcasing landscapes that explore themes of containment, resilience, and emotional space. The first work presents a restrained environment with dark structures and blooming branches, while the second features a fluid, immersive landscape hinting at instability. Both invite reflection on the dual nature of growth within limits.
Flight Over Quiet Hills
Laura Bernardeschi Nelson’s artwork employs oil pastels to evoke landscapes that blend memory and emotion rather than depict specific places. Each piece presents a moment of stillness and movement, characterized by textured layers and vibrant colors, inviting introspection and a connection to nature’s shifting essence.
Storm Within
Laura Bernardeschi Nelson’s 2026 artwork, “Eye of the Storm Within,” uses oil pastels to depict a spiraling vortex of turquoise, teal, and white. At the center lies a fragmented dark form, symbolizing vulnerability and resilience. The piece emphasizes movement and emotion, balancing abstraction with symbolism to explore inner experiences amidst chaos.
Stillness
“Winds Over Quiet Water” by Laura Bernardeschi Nelson features a peaceful landscape captured through dynamic blue and white strokes. The composition reflects a serene balance between an expressive sky and a grounded earth/water merge. Created in oil pastels, it invites contemplation of nature’s quiet interplay. Sized at 45 × 35 cm and varnished for depth.
The Vixen and the Grey Maze
In “The Transformation of the Vixen,” Laura Bernardeschi Nelson depicts a world within the Great Stone Burrow, where stagnant Grey Rats live in despair, reliant on conformity. Enter the vibrant Vixen, who challenges their monotony, igniting their envy and forcing them to confront their hollow existence. Ultimately, she escapes to freedom, leaving them in silence.