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 (22)
koosievantutte
great, one can feel the joy.
ARTWITHIN_II
This has celebration all over it, Gun! It is beautiful.
helanker
Such a wonderful image full of delight and happiness.
ElizaB
love your creations..this is vibrant and dynamic
NekhbetSun
Sooo lovely S
mansco
Love this picture, Gun. Splendid ;O)
Bossie_Boots
Wow amazing superb work hugs lou x
huismus
Very dynamic artwork indeed! Beautiful!
Flint_Hawk
Very original & powerful work! Great job!
Mousson
Wow amazing !!!!!!!
romanceworks
A wonderful celebration of Spring and sunshine. CC
danob
Superb
npauling
Love the joyous movement in this and the texture and colour.
HannaK
A wonderful sunny day to you too Gun
ledwolorz
Fantastic work.
three_grrr
Exactly how I feel, fighting my way out from winter's grasp, into the warmth of spring!
Cgaynor
I like the merging of the person and the sea of color.
pixart1
juca
Perfect art!!!
magichild2
Excellent piece ...love the way you did it.
kimariehere
a masterpiece gun sorry i am late on this ADORE THE MOOD!!! WOW!... just amazing !!!
mayuan
since I don't post here (I post in other arts), I'm always a little humbled when I enter a new gallery. But I've heard of you (through zann) and seen your loving comments several places and finally decided to walk through your gallery doors. What a mix of rapture and mystery you have...This image—which I chose on instinct—has the quality of an etching-ground (copper, or some metal), and yet it also has an organic feeling like the hues & lines grew there. But the overall is rapturous, a person reaching while the life around her flows with her soul. And while the sun is in there somewhere, it's almost as if the sun were in her, and the rest of the painting just moved in empaty. A touching image, and so nice to enter your gallery at long last...