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)
Eutopia
Fantastic work :-) This is kind of how I feel this week actually ...
ElizaB
very evocative image...know this feeling at the moment too
timtripp
excellent!
Trollmac
Wow, really amazing, so many things to be seen!
mansco
Really splendid and it's title is just perfect ;O)
romanceworks
Very expressive artwork. Sometimes if you can keep yourself together for one more moment, and get through the feelings, then you can do it again, and that moment becomes an hour, and a day, and longer, and there is hope. CC
amota99517
Wow! This is such a unique piece and so well done!
ARTWITHIN_II
The secret of survival! Agree with romanceworks comment. Sometimes it takes all the energy one has to hang on, so I try to eliminate anything that drains me of energy at the time. Gun, this is both beautiful and powerful.
tofi
Beautiful colours and detail... with a splendid texture as well! It almost seems fragmented; yet held together by one's own hand.... very expressive and creative masterpiece, my friend. Once again, sublime artwork and creativity!
ekatz
great work
helanker
It looks very beautiful and I love the edges and the tecture. :))
HannaK
Great composition - colors make me feel uncomfortable -
NekhbetSun
Very poignant and well done...love the texture too !
huismus
Beautiful artwork Gun!
magichild2
Great strong and a great piece of work that I certainly can relate too...
lorandbartho
Lovely composition!
Pewter7
This is wonderful artwork! Very cool looking, thoughtprovoking and evokative.
npauling
Beautiful soft textures for some fluffy thoughts. Excellent work.
ARTWITHIN
Beautiful, compassionate, and tender image, sis, communicating deep feeling.
Nurzu
.................................well done!
anahata.c
A powerful, ruptured and passionate vision of a soul. Despite the ruptured surface, there is a burst of light in the head. And the textures throughout are passionate and pulsing. That's very affirming. And here are those rapturous blues again (haven't seen them as much in the last few paintings)—they give this hope too. There's even a Cubist element to the work, in the way you put planes together, so the painting has a formal music as well. It's beautiful, and one of your works that defy words—it touches that part of any of us that has struggled, and that part of us that has worked to overcome it as well. Much gratitude for your vision, as always.
HADCANCER
Looks like this person is barely holding together
Mousson
Brilliant !!!!!!!