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 (24)
cameraobscura2
Greetings dear friend Gun, But it is true! Each day is a new day and if we let ourselves not be tied down with the luggage of the previous day, then we do begin a new day. Sad though, we tend to hang on to the past, not really living our life to the fullest. Enjoy what is left of your Sunday and thank you for sharing. egmont
mansco
So beautiful and evocative. Love it ;O)
koosievantutte
fine haiku and a beautiful way of illustrating it.
stolta
Yes that is truth,Excellent work!!!!!!5++++++
Erynn
Really wonderful work :-)
romanceworks
Beautiful and moving. I can relate to those words. CC
Bossie_Boots
Superb work i also agree with above hugs lou x
MUSEWORX
Splendid thought and image!
ontar1
Excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NekhbetSun
This is wonderful and how true....something I have a hard time with . . .
Fidelity2
Very well done. 5+.
npauling
A lovely serene feel to your new beginning. Beautiful work.
MrsLubner
superb work.
pteb
Excellent texture and color so smooth and subtle.
huismus
Lovely.
tofi
Your words are so true, so amazingly powerful. We may need to move on but lets not forget the lessons yesterday taught. For, the priceless benefit of the richness of one's past is the preparation for tomorrow, and the 'gift' to the 'present'. I applaud your courage to so elegantly spell out a truism we so often fail to recognize.
Littlejock
Very poetic.. Big Hugs
alhak
how does that saying go, Yesterday's a treasure, Today's a blessing and Tomorrow is a gift....wonderful work and words
ARTWITHIN
You illustrate the haiku beautifully, Gun. I think it doesn't matter much whether we chose t move on, or are forced to move on. Once we do, we see the blessing in it for ourselves and rejoice. Hugs & love, my dear sis. Suzanne
magichild2
Very true...excellent
acquilon
excellent and inner true ravissima
kimariehere
love what you wrote here.... wonderful inspirational work!!
ascrazy
the beautiful poetical motto, and the fantastic magic mood:-)
nikolais
every morning we are reborn. wonderful work again, Gun