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)
vlaaitje
wow, this has so many way to express a feeling, well done
ledwolorz
Wonderful work.
helanker
A really awesom artwork GUN !!! :)
koosievantutte
very fine image and great for the theme.
ARTWITHIN_II
Fantastic idea, Gun. Your right brain is on a real roll.
Tutte
Love this one Gun. You imagination is outstanding. Keep it up. Hugs, Tutte
mansco
Love it's energy ;O)
timtripp
excellent!
NekhbetSun
Very interesting and well done Gun !
odie
The imagination runs with this one. Very well done.
Mousson
superb image! quite BEAUTIFUL!
magichild2
Love how you did the shadow on the wall...great imagination
lorandbartho
Highly interesting composition!
romanceworks
Superb, showing how we sometimes just fade into our surroundings. CC
amota99517
Very cool work!!!
npauling
Very imaginative work and very well done.
Pewter7
Cool work :)
anahata.c
when one looks closely, they see a great variety of texture and form in the background. It's immensely alive. Some of the cracks are lit like they have light inside, and the surface is speckled with lights, and in spots it almost looks liquid (!). But of course you have the male emerging in and out of the wall: It's like a bas relief made by a god. You even have blues surrounding his head: That just knocked me out. The choices you make, consciously or no, can be so touching. A beautiful sonata in textures, reds, blues and shadow, and of the human form melding with the things around him...
HADCANCER
Appears this person is fading away or in essance losing himself to his surrounds. Seems to be a staement on the times we live in.