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 (19)
LinaraTar
I really like the colors.. fantastic art ;)
JaneEden
Amazingly beautiful artwork!! hugs Jane xx
fractalinda
Very beautiful, Gun. Excellent work. I do hope your surgery goes well.
Fidelity2
Very cool. 5+.
ARTWITHIN_II
Grace, peace and purity of heart shine through your beautiful image, Gun. You bring tears to my eyes with this. Love & hugs, sis.
npauling
Very effective and beautiful. A lovely creative work.
ledwolorz
Very beautiful artwork.
kansas
Oh so beautiful!
romanceworks
Very emotional artwork. CC
uk601
oh wow..... FANTASTIC image. i like it very much
huismus
Beautiful artwork!
Bossie_Boots
Oh wow superb artwork hugs lou x
NekhbetSun
I love this !
jgmart
Wonderful image!!
furuta
Beautiful image, excellent art!!
helanker
OH that is really lovely Gun. I like it very much. So much happines in it.
nikolais
love the tender watercolor feel, Gun
magichild2
Totally awesome...nicely done
mayuan
the comments here all get it. It's rapturous, Gun. And you have this background texture that almost looks like a closeup of flower petals, it seems porous and veined. Lovely. And a whisper of a face looking on. Soulful and rapturous. "Purity of heart" as Zann says. Beautiful.