Featured piece · Streets and Fields of Gold
Fields of Gold at Last Light
By Gillian Mager · Creative Advisor, Komani, South Africa
Out of 24 entries in our Streets and Fields of Gold creative challenge, this is the piece our Inspire Community was most inspired by.
Fields of Gold at Last Light, Gillian MagerClick the picture to see it larger
The transformation
From a photograph to a field of gold
Our Streets and Fields of Gold challenge asked for two pictures, the photograph you started from and the finished piece, in exactly the same composition. This is Gillian’s.
The commonage and cricket field at Kasouga after the rains, a place that holds golden years and the memories that remain of them. Printed, overpainted in acrylic, then embellished with gold leaf and gold paint.
Gillian Mager, in her own wordsWhat we said about it
The piece that moved our community most
Every creative challenge we run, the entry our members are most inspired by becomes our featured piece. For Streets and Fields of Gold, that is Fields of Gold at Last Light. Congratulations, Gillian.
Lavishly done, and that is what we love about it. The lavish use of gold right through the piece is beautiful.
Our feedback at the Open MicHow it did
Honoured by the people who know the work
In the Inspire Community, members mark the work that moves them with an Inspired reaction. Across the whole Streets and Fields of Gold challenge our members gave 82 of them, and roughly one in every seven went to this single piece.
The artist
Gillian Mager
Nature and the outdoors are where Gillian finds solace and herself. She loves the bush, its sights, sounds, smells, colours, and endless details that reflect a Master Creator. Wildlife photography was her first passion, but art photography has opened up new creative possibilities, alongside a growing love of painting in oils, acrylics, mixed media and encaustic. Trees have become a favourite subject, she never tires of their majesty and mystery, how they are shaped by the seasons and emerge more beautiful and full of character.
She loves to touch and feel the textures of nature, marvelling at the colours and shapes in things we take for granted: rocks, leaves, bark, flowers, animals and birds. Art photography is her therapy, joy and challenge, and it has taught her to see the world in more depth, detail, emotion and colour.
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