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)
npauling
How gorgeous, it is a wonderful mix of the fractal and the person. The colouring is so vibrant.
novelist
Great image!
RobyHermida
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ARTWITHIN
Beautiful color gradient and fire design. Very mystical and full of light...light within light. It also reminds me of entering into the fire of purification, a preparation for still greater wonders.
mayuan
oh gun, your swirling rings of fire are rapturous. This is like someone standing in the chambers of the heart, surrounded by rich darks and passionate reds, and looking out through rings of sumptuous fire. It's as if the whole piece were set aflame by her own flame. And the flames—yes, I can see fractals at work; but you've turned them into sculpted wisps, as if they were laid on by a palette knife; and your saturated reds & yellows are just beautiful. (Your pink, bottom left, is beautiful too; you have a whole spectrum here.) We say the light at the center of the heart can set the entire world ablaze: You captured that here beautifully...
fractalinda
Beautiful, mysterious and inspiring all at once. Excellent work and mood.
MrsLubner
lovely
shanpoo
I love this gives a creepy feeling along with a twist of mystery! FAV! Just amazing colors.
ekatz
love it, maybe one improvement would have been a more suttle light on the face. the work has wonderful depth and energy
romanceworks
Oh, this is awesome. CC
vlaaitje
wow, this is fantastic, what a wonderful artwork with so much to say
Bossie_Boots
Oh wow what a fantastic image superb work hugs lou x
ledwolorz
Fantastic artwork.
huismus
Beautiful artwork Gun!
helanker
OH How beautiful this is. Wonderful colors. Did she put it all in flames with her little flame?? Anyway, I love this one.
gunsan
Thanks guys for comments. Helle. I think she has a little borrowed piece of it. You know like taking a glass of water from the sea. The glass doesn't contain the sea, but still it is the same stuff.
jgmart
I do like this one - very nice colors
magichild2
Now this I really like because of the design for one, color for another and the theme of flames ...totally phenomenal
tizjezzme
there sure is a lot of inspiration in you ... your work is Awesome.
kimariehere
POWERFUL creation and masterful work of art ...this little light of mine im gunna letit shine!!! luv this!!!
koosievantutte
beautiful image, gun
three_grrr
Life .. is light
Pewter7
Superb! Very cool image!