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 (39)
tizjezzme
Beautiful painted image.. love your style!
DivineRAiN
awww, cute kitty cat. We have 4 of them, although none are like this one. But I have one that is mainly white.. lil bit of gray on top of her head. She has one orange eye, and one blue. The two different color eyes is a good indicator of the kind of personality she has. We call her Sybil.
daali
fantastic "cut" and light!!!!
MINTY1974
Hi, is this a painting or did you use filters and the art history brush in photoshop? It would be cool to know.
mss
Just beautiful cat! I had one named Mango though he was just B&W. I really loved the name, so he got it even though he was the wrong colors... I've always really liked coon cats, but they don't do well in the tropics. Nice painting of his/her fur!
MaraP
Wonderful portrait!
jarmila
what a lovely cat, nice portrait
thecytron
Stunning facial Xpression - kind of inquisitive and worth investigating!
6T6
The intensely focused gaze is just as if it was an actual cat. It seems alive! For me, it is always the eyes that catch my attention. You see with the eyes of a true artist.