Laura Bernardeschi Nelson is a UK-based mixed-media artist whose practice sits at the intersection of environmental advocacy, resilience, mental health, and contemporary self-portraiture. Her work explores climate change, memory, and the parallel aging of Earth and self—how erosion, scars, and...
Read MoreLaura Bernardeschi Nelson is a UK-based mixed-media artist whose practice sits at the intersection of environmental advocacy, resilience, mental health, and contemporary self-portraiture. Her work explores climate change, memory, and the parallel aging of Earth and self—how erosion, scars, and repair appear both in landscapes and in the psyche. She builds tactile, layered surfaces using acrylics, gesso, spray paint and oil pastels, often incorporating reclaimed or unconventional materials such as coffee grounds, papers, textured fragments and hand-built elements to heighten a sense of physical presence.
Recurring motifs—hands, fragments of the figure, and environmental structures—act as symbols of care, responsibility and resilience. Her compositions move between abstraction and recognisable forms, creating spaces where urgency can coexist with tenderness and hope. By translating eco-anxiety and lived emotional experience into texture and gesture, she aims to make work that feels both honest and restorative. An established eco-artist, she has exhibited across the UK and internationally between 2018 and 2025, developing a distinctive visual language that invites viewers to reflect on what we protect, what we neglect, and what we can still repair.
