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 (31)
helanker
WOW Gun! It is so very beautiful and very melancholy too. Well done :)
Tutte
You continue to amaze me Gun with your vision and creativity. You are unbelievably talented not just as an artist but in how you are able to express your inner thoughts and emotions. I am in AWE! Big Hug, Tutte
schatjeisis
beautifull work love it
niek
Wonderful texture! And a perfect world for a daydream!
Mousson
creativity !!!!!!!!
jgmart
I really like the textures in this - nice work!
ARTWITHIN_II
Gorgeous colors and texture, plus a wonderful expression of your concept.
NekhbetSun
Wonderfully emotive...cool texture too !
timtripp
excellent!
alltheoriginalnames
Very interesting style and technique, both original and beautiful
nikolais
almost abstrct. perfect work, Gun!
Realm_Of_Illusion
Even though I see pain I also see gentleness. This is very beautiful, the texture is really wonderful :)
popeslattz
A very strong piece. A lot of emotion is expressed here.
odie
To crawl inside oneself to hide from the troubles is the first reaction, I think. It is often difficult to find courage in such a situation. This posture and color is all about protecting our center from the fears. Yellow is a healing and hopeful color and yet the blues and browns are trying to sneak in. It's beautiful, Gun.
romanceworks
When troubles bend me down, I am picked up by art. This is superb. CC
ElizaB
you have expressed the emotion of your title superbly
koosievantutte
like this a lot - very fine image.
IO4
Wonderful image:)
RobyHermida
NICE...........
lizzibell
excellent work...
ledwolorz
Beautiful work.
ekatz
very subtle... excellent
mansco
Splendid textures and feeling to it ;O)
november22
What medium is this? Looks like crumpled paper acrylics - very beautiful image; seems like it's large?
rudiruth
beautiful!!!
Pewter7
Nice work :)
magichild2
That's for sure...great piece of work .
dvab
Beautiful!!!
three_grrr
Brings tears to my eyes
anahata.c
one of your most mysterious images, very touching, very human. It's not just the image itself (its sense of being bent-over inside oneself), but the texture & the colors. The texture has a wonderful earth & rock feeling, and also like being in a cave, in the cave of our insides. Yet everything is lit with an "inside light," like there's a deep light holding us, guiding us. And you use greens & blues so expressively! How you wash them across the piece—it's a quiet act of love. You paint our insides as few do. It's beautiful.