by Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

Artwork Description

City Underwater by Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

45.0 x 35.0 cm

Title: City Underwater Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson Medium: Oil pastels on paper, varnished Dimensions: 45 x 35 cm Framed: Yes Description: City Underwater captures a haunting vision of our future — a world where once-vibrant urban life has sunk beneath rising tides. Through rich, textural strokes of oil pastel, Laura Bernardeschi Nelson transforms the familiar architecture of the city into a submerged dreamscape. Fish glide between the skeletons of buildings marked “Hospital” and “School,” while an octopus takes silent dominion over what was once human space. This piece is both beautiful and devastating — a meditation on climate change and the fragility of human progress. The glimmering blues and silvery greys, sealed under a protective varnish, shimmer like refracted light beneath the sea, echoing the slow, inevitable drowning of civilization. Each detail invites reflection: the floating debris, the ghostly silhouettes, the eerie calm that follows catastrophe. City Underwater is not just a warning — it is a requiem for a world we still have time to save.

Artwork Details

Medium: Painting Pastel

Genre: Expressionism