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.
Proud to be featured on Check it out! My other galleries. http://gun-legler.artistwebsites.com/
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 (25)
koosievantutte
very, very beautiful - you know i love your golden colours.
ARTWITHIN
Fantastic use of different media, sis. I can't even tell there is a fractal in that. You really created a wonderful 2D image. I agree with koosie about your golds.
NekhbetSun
It shimmers !!! lovely image S ....hope you're feeling better !
Realm_Of_Illusion
Looks like a deep cave, a place of secrets. The golden light is really beautiful :)
Pewter7
This is a SUPERB grunged background!
Mondwin
Marvelous done my Dear Gun....bravissima!V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
timtripp
excellent
ErisX
Extremely primal, yet lovely. Reminds me of Dave McKean... Beautiful! ex
helanker
WOW ! It looks so beautiful and I love that grainy look...but it looks like a skull profile :)
MrsRatbag
Lovely work!
romanceworks
An intriguing image, so primal with a golden glow. CC
dvab
Beautiful!
cvrad
It does look like the profile of a skull but kind of abstract Like the grunge feel also! Chris
mansco
A splendid result Gun ;O)
sylki
Very beautiful magical glow, wonderful lighting!
magichild2
Excellent done...nice textures
ekatz
great textures
Heathcroft
This is subtle and excellent. Not overdone at all.
kansas
Unusual, but I like it.
ledwolorz
Fantastic work.
Nurzu
fantastic done
november22
I quite like this - sense of a real texture here is making my fingers reach for the screen.
danob
Fabulous work on textures which you are the Queen! Rather spooky or am I seeing a skull!
anahata.c
gun, it's like a night-time photo of roots & plants creating their miracles behind a veil of thick darkness. Or as Realmofillusion says, it's like looking into a deep cave of secrets. It's life from a deep place, roots reaching down into earth & rock & a beautiful etched space; and you lit it in the center as if to say life is radiating at the heart of it all, like we're peering into its DNA. I love the textures you're creating these days! They're intricate and beautiful...and the little touch of fractal here gives us the feeling we're spiraling into the very center of life...
LanieBug
If that is a skull in there (reading denob and helanker's comments), then it's very appropriate. Things that were buried centuries ago nourished green things over time, and one of them could have been a tree who's roots now cradle the skull. A beautiful work, wonderfully integrated texture and fractal