by Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

Artwork Description

The Silence After the Wave by Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

45.0 x 35.0 cm

Title: The Silence After the Wave Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson Medium: Acrylic on paper Technique: Textural brushwork and tonal blending to express sea movement and atmosphere Finish: Varnished with a professional protective sealant Size: 40 x 30 cm with mount (visible artwork approx. 20 x 30 cm) Signature: Signed on front and back Originality: Unique original artwork I’ve always found the sea to be a kind of memory. It doesn’t hold anything forever. But it doesn’t forget either. This painting came to me after a dream where I stood alone on a beach, the waves restless, the sky heavy, and something dark washed up on the sand. I couldn’t tell if it was a bottle, a stone, or something else. But it felt like a message—unfinished, maybe unreadable. In painting it, I didn’t try to define the object too clearly. I wanted to leave that choice to the viewer. It could be a bottle with a letter never delivered. Or it could be a part of ourselves, some piece we let go of long ago, now returned without a name. The brushstrokes in the water are loose, layered, and full of movement. I used softer transitions in the sky to let it stretch into something vast and open. This piece belongs to my ongoing exploration of landscapes as inner places—travel not only across the world but into the stories we carry, and sometimes abandon, along the way.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Pastel

Genre: Figurative