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 (19)
Tutte
Your work is totally inspiring to me Gun. You have a God given gift!xoxo
nongo
This image just gave me goose bumps... My friend Jennifer passed away recently and today was her memorial, she loved & collected fairys and this is such a timely image. Beautifully done Gunsan!!!!!!!!!
kimariehere
WOW GOING TO FAVES ! THIS IS SO INCREDIBLE so deeply felt !! that is what spectacular art does moves the soul and touches place of the heart and this does that for me.. i am in awe!! ..AWESOME Gun!!! WOW!
mansco
you always touch me with your artworks, really wonderful my friend ;O)
kansas
A moving and touching composition.
ascrazy
wonderful poetical artfeeling, superb work:-)
nikolais
great work with so much space for thought
NekhbetSun
So soft and lovely and full of pathos ! amazingly awesome as usual !!!
Visual_Poetry_101
I always marvel at your creative vision. Thank you for sharing. Egmont
devineydesignsllc
so well done,very inspiring artist!
magichild2
This piece a woman, a child, with sadness, broken hearted, feeling some sort of pain within. The wings are her salvation to fly away ...
danob
Brilliant work Gun!!
odie
I hope the butterfly can convince her to be brave and find her freedom. :0)
krominegray
I'm really caught up in her pose, as if safely growing in a cocoon. Beautiful.
ARTWITHIN
This is a heart rendering image Gun. I can feel the fear and I want to reach out to her. What a wonderful image you have created to elicit such emotion.
addiek
nice one Gun... closed up or open... wings is wings!
martingeorg
Good morning Dr. Legler ;o) I havnt found the time for the forum nor the mood for commenting past time. But I have to say thank you for your comments or better for the session you gave me over my previous uploads, it helped pretty much ;o) Now to your image here wich is a very essential one. It shows to me one of the most important properties. You can drop down and get lost because of your fears, wich is interesting because fear seem to appear mostly at first. You have to dig deeper or to know yourself very well to find your butterfly ;o) Happy days Gun!!!
jimw1
I somehow stumbled across this gallery' and i have to say it is very much in my train of thought......wonderful Images' Love this one and the title is so apt.. Excellent
FUNJOKER
cool:)very very...cool ;)... wow wow wow