I am Gillian Burfield

WELCOME TO MY MAGICAL WORLD

“Our dreams are only limited by our imagination.”

I am a mixed media artist working in the language of magical abstract realism, creating paintings that exist between the seen and unseen. My work is inspired by the natural world, remembered places, and the shifting interplay of light, atmosphere and shadow.

Through layered colour, texture and translucent marks, I build spaces that feel both familiar and dreamlike. Birds, animals, flowers and fragments of forgotten worlds emerge as quiet symbolic presences — inviting reflection, wonder and emotional connection.

I see painting as an act of listening as much as creating: a way of honouring the fleeting beauty often overlooked in everyday life. Each work becomes a threshold between memory, imagination and the natural world.

Through my paintings I hope to create moments of stillness and enchantment — reminders that magic lingers in light, in silence, and in our connection to the living world around us.