Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

Multidisciplinary artist -Mixed Media and Oil Pastel Artist – UK

About the Artist: Laura Bernardeschi Nelson

Laura Bernardeschi Nelson is a contemporary multidisciplinary artist and author based in the UK. Originally from Italy, her work explores resilience, mental health, and the urgent realities of climate change, focusing on the fragile and evolving relationship between humans and the natural environment.

Her practice moves between painting, mixed media, and writing, creating layered and intuitive works that reflect environmental tension, emotional vulnerability, and transformation. Through expressive mark-making and shifting surfaces, she investigates how external ecological instability mirrors internal human experience.

A recurring presence in her work is the female perspective—often subtle, sometimes fragmented—expressing strength, endurance, and the complexity of navigating both personal and environmental change.

Her artistic language has evolved from early influences in vibrant abstraction and elements of Pop Art into a more introspective and conceptual approach. Today, her work balances growth and containment, presence and disappearance, control and release.

Alongside her visual practice, Laura is also an author. Her...

Bachelor's degree in art with honours taken at Pisa University, Italy.

2026
● Under The Bed Sale (UBS26) — Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield, UK — (Jan 26)
● Concorso Internazionale di Pittura "Dantebus Bazart" - VIII Edizione (Jan 26)
● Boomer Gallery , London January 2026 , Dreams and Nightmares ( Jan 26)
● Fox Yard Studio , Suffolk , Nature In mind (Jan 26)
● Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) — Member

2025
● EXI / Existential Art Exhibition — Crypt Gallery (St Pancras), London, UK (Feb 2025)
● Under The Bed Sale — Cupola Contemporary Art, Sheffield, UK (Jan–Feb 2025)
● ARTISTS’ PROTEST: in Words & Images! — Dunoon MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Scotland
● Contrast Issue 3 — Meta Space Gallery, UK (Jan 2025)
● 24th Community Art Exhibition in Virtual Reality — VR
exhibition (20 Jan–10 Feb 2025)
● Portraits and Figures — Open Gallery, Halifax, UK (Mar 2025)
● Cista Arts Self-Portrait (Catalogue Selection) — selected
self-portrait published in Cista Arts catalogue (Mar 2025)
● Surf & Turf — Badger in the Wall, Clapham (North Yorkshire),
UK (Mar–Apr 2025) — artwork: The Tree
● Pets / Domestic Animals — The Animal Artspace (Virtual
Reality exhibition selection)
● Dantebus (7th Edition) — Certificate of Participation —
Rome/Florence, Italy
● In Light of All of This: Soft Power Strong Voice — Ci...