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)
SoulSerpentCreations
Very well done. I like it... Very peaceful...
cameraobscura2
A wonderful rendition for sure of a tragic yet beautiful story. Have a great week and thank you for sharing. egmont
huismus
Beautiful. Marvelous artwork.
nikolais
stunning again,Gun. This one is probably Nomer Odin (#1)of your latest, Gun.
JaneEden
This a tender and peaceful artwork. Excellent!!
NekhbetSun
Exquisite image Gun !
pteb
The water looks strange and dangerous.
mansco
Oh Gun, this is so full of feelings. Wonderful, sublime work ;O)
Valerie-Ducom
Oh yes, so beautiful picture and very similary a Ophelia. I know good this work because, is like remember the searching of picture for my great friend of the "silent love of death" for to put in the first picture in the cd... Excellent my friend and good day :)
MUSEWORX
Outstanding image!
ARTWITHIN
Regardless of the Shakespeare connection, the image appears to me as peaceful bliss. You created a dream image in a way. She looks to be sleeping and dreaming wonderful things. Beautiful work, sis. Hugs and love, Suzanne
magichild2
Oh how sad..but you did an amazing job with this..
ontar1
Beautifully done!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Margana
Beautiful...tragic...and yet peaceful. A powerful and exquisitely created piece of art, sotnos. -M :^)
EhsanA
Beautiful image
Littlejock
Pure beauty and poesy
romanceworks
You have created beauty, even in death. CC
FCLittle
Very nicely done...her face has a strange quality to it, almost elven, in a way...
MrsLubner
Wonderful!
Fidelity2
Very well done. 5+.
three_grrr
I saw this as a very peaceful image as well. Sometimes there is peace in death. Who knows what lead to this young woman laying so peacefully in the water? Was she put here by someone else? I don't think she drowned, I think she was gone before the water took her. Perhaps sorrow overwhelmed her, perhaps it was a broken heart and her will to live left. So many questions, but all seem lead to peace.
npauling
Beautifully done she looks so peaceful in death.
kimariehere
brilliant work gun awesome mood and style! !!!...