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 (30)
Tanglimara
Fabulous fossilized fractal work. Really good looking textures and rich colours. Tony.
gunsan
No fractals here Tony! But thanks! I am sorry for being late in commenting, while this difficulties with the monitor is goibg on. Have to start all over again. The fonts are green, sometimes red and some hardly readable :-(
ElizaB
great earthy colours and textures
anahata.c
gun this is one of your paintings that leave me wordless because they touch places I can't quite verbalize. I've said before that your gallery is like a record of my inner life, every day i feel like you'd paid me a visit the night before...The shell is a fossil, yes, and it's embedded in stone. But it's also a point of intensity, surrounded by flames. (Flames made out of stone!) And those wonderful waving lines of light that undulate over everything. And the deep reddish glow under the shell's right side: That shell is hot! And your colors (as usual) call us, they're inviting & deep. You know, I've noticed with fine artists that they can switch palettes daily: But each palette is as beautiful as the last. You prove that daily. A beautiful & fiery work, intense, interior, and as always very touching...
ErisX
Ah, beauty! So lovely. This would make an excellent framed print...
Margana
It's an amazing work, sotnos. The movement from dark to light has such a realistic and cavernous feeling, both beautiful to behold and yet also, well, frightening... I get the feeling there are many shadowy stories in those depths... Perhaps best of all, I like the 'eye' of your 'hurricane', and how it looks back at us. That was a brilliant touch. It's as if you are saying, 'Do you see me? Well, I see you, too.' Brilliantly done, vannen. And as always, my hat is off to you. Always -M :^)
ledwolorz
wonderful work.
tetsu-pino
Fantastic work!!!
helanker
WOW ! I see many thousands of years passing in the process of creating a fossil in this image. Atleast that is what this image makes me imagine. I love it Gun. Very dramatic.
koosievantutte
you gave life to a fossil.
timtripp
excellent!
NekhbetSun
Fossils never look so good....this is brilliant Gun !
Pewter7
This is a wonderfully crafted image with a delicously warm and rich color scheme. Very nice work!
dvab
Great work.
romanceworks
How very lovely and such great colors. CC
ontar1
Fantastic scene, love the colors and detail, excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Smallreddog
nice one of my favorites of yours
magichild2
Great effects done on this fossil piece. Beautiful
Vladivar
Fantastic tones. I could watch it for hours.
HADCANCER
This one is kind of neat.
mansco
Splendid textures, lighting and tones ;O)
npauling
Super work and the lighting and colouring look amazing.
e-brink
Very nice image! I particularly like the depth and richness of the colour.
kimariehere
beautifully done Gun I am a big fossil lover and can stare at them for hours always wondering what the world must have been like in the day they were living !
busi2ness
Very complementary to see the lines and shell shape being blended.
lorandbartho
Fascinating composition!
three_grrr
I too see a storm, a hurricane, perhaps because I've been watching too much of the last great storm on TV! The earthy colors are marvelously warm
RobyHermida
Fabulous
amota99517
Wow! This is absolutely gorgeous work! I love the colors. This definitely is an intriguing fossil.
neoexcello
Vladivar commented that they "could watch it" for hours...I as well. I've been watching it for a long time. It looks so much like stones I've handled, the wind-polished layer of oxide, worn off in places like the petroglyphs etched out of the oxidation layers that I saw in Utah. It is so beautiful, and people comment upon you "painting" these...I wish I could figure out the process you are using. It is so realistic and yet so artful and mysterious...your work seems like magic.