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 (23)
ARTWITHIN
This is a great theme image, Gun. It truly is as you explained...longing for escape. I wonder how many have that feeling at some time in their lives. I have, so I feel the longing of the mermaid. This one goes to the heart, and my fav's. Hugs and love, sis. Suzanne
kimariehere
beautiful work and idea gun!...wonderful dreamlike image!!
MrsLubner
Excellent.
Tutte
Just outstanding Gun and I too can relate. You are so darned talented.
SSoffia
PERFECT CAPTURE & COMPOSITION !!!!!
pixart1
To work on fixed themes is one of your strong points! Great idea, implementation and achievement.
nikolais
love your really creative concept and the perfect way you implemented it into graphics. guess you didn't have to plunge yourself and look up at the passers-by on the shore.
gunsan
LOL, I treasure my imagination. No plunging in water this cold and rainy summer, thank God!
mansco
Splendid work, love it's reflections very much ;O)
alhak
fabulous work and imagination with this one!
ontar1
Very creative!!!!
huismus
Lovely picture and lovely thoughts behind it.
JaneEden
Well I certainly believe it by the feelings conveyed in her face - excellent capture!
acquilon
fantastic artwork bravissima
Fidelity2
Amazing image and technique. 5+.
npauling
Very creative work with this one, you can see the longing in her face. Lovely work.
three_grrr
I think everyone feels the need for this kind of escape sometime or other. I think there is a time in everyone's life when they want to be someone else, or like someone else.
Valerie-Ducom
Fantastic work ! Good day :)
romanceworks
A wonderful interpretation of the theme. CC
NekhbetSun
Reminds me of The Little Mermaid tale....beautiful and poignant image Gun S ~ Hugs ~
Littlejock
Wonderful and soft feeling. Hugs
ascrazy
colour and texture deepen her suffering on the face fantastically, you "operate" moods superbly, the superb work:-)
pteb
Great idea for a theme and a nice image to start it off with.