BIO Hi, I am Gun Legler from Sweden. I live together with my cat Simon in a little village near Gothenburg On the outside I am old, but young inside :-) For so long I can remember, I have enjoyed expressing myself through any kind of art or craft. Until I was 40 I worked as a child psychologist and pre-school teacher, but after that I said goodbye to my profession and began studying at an art school. There I stayed for four years, mainly learning Graphic art (etching, dry needle and linoleum cut). I was a lousy oil painter, that medium did not fit me at all, watercolor I liked better. For many years I made collages of different kind, watercolor and textile. I grew up with a mother that sewed and a father that built violins, so I early fell in love with textures of many kinds. I have now abandoned making textile collages, but I realize that I work much in the same way with my computer art. I take a piece here and a piece there and try to make a whole of it. And I am madly in love with textures of all kinds, I can sit for hours just playing with different colors, textures and filters, making backgrounds just for fun (and for upcoming images). I work very much by intuition when I make an image, experimenting wildly with layers, textures, color and light. But the form is equally important, that�s what Graphic school taught me. I have seldom a clear inner image when I start creating, it is more a feeling I want to express. The process can be quite unconscious to me for a long time. The image gradually takes form, and become clearer to me. What I want with my images is to reach the feelings of the viewers, to make them look into their own inner being and respond in any way, regardless of which feeling is evoked.
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I am Gun's daughter Lena (zitalena@gmail.com). I am so, so sorry to tell you all that mom passed Tuesday morning, Feb 8 2022, Swedish time. No panic, no pain, no regrets. So peaceful. I tried to get a message about this on my moms latest picture, but now I can't find it. But now I have her computer and can log in. Please email me if you want. Thanks to all. Mom really loved the community!! Her gallery will live on. I have changed the address to mine, because me and my brother really would LOVE to keep her gallery open. Love to all.
Comments (20)
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Lovely post Gun, it captures movement. Thanks for the info too :-)
claridad
Wonderful painting Gun. I love how the herd disappears into the mist. You are collecting such a wonderful pictoral story of Laplander life. I always think when humans say it doesn't hurt animals to do their branding on them, what human has been branded so they can say that for sure it doesn't hurt the animal? ;)
fractalinda
A wonderful sense of herd and movement. Excellent shade and light. Beautifully captured and painted..and a very interesting story.
Fractelaar
Beautiful design
lak
this is gorgeous painting gun~
Mondwin
Fabulous painting as Your usual,dear Gun!!!!bravo!V:DDD.Hugs Whylma.
parb1194
Beautiful work and image. Accolades!!!!!
cindyx
Excellent anatomy on the animals. Your portrayal of the flurry of their movement is fantastic. Beautiful artwork.
2Loose2Trek
Beautifully presented text and image. :-)
kansas
A splendid photo painting. Thank you for this enlightening series.
wildfire2003
Beautiful painting again Gun, love the colors!
Egmont
I love how you have done the postwork. It matches very nicly the earlier version.
VDH
Very nice painting image! Great colors! Very well done!!
sossy
amazing image and impression! fantastic expression of movement and natural life! ;o)
Digimon
What a magical image! it is very "Dream-like", and there is a comforting feel to it, like warm safety in the herd...fabulous!!
addiek
terrific mini series... well done
Ensomniac
Very magical. Beautiful piece.
martingeorg
Same formidable deepth as in your first Reindeer posting and the same love to detail. It is a pleasure to look at and all the informations about the samis are very very interesting. Thanks Gun!
cynlee
that's how we mark our cattle here.. wonderfully done gun in the painting ;]
borsy
Beautifully done!!