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 (28)
ontar1
Awesome idea and presentation, awesome work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
odie
A fabulous, watery image that has echos of Jerry Uelsmann style. The floating eye is quite similar what could be seen in the old episodes of the Outer Limits shows. This is top notch, Gun.
RobyHermida
Beautiful, excellent capture!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
helanker
AWW! Yes that is a dizzy one, but very Beautiful and well done. :))) Try to blink Gun :))) I love the B/H. :)
lyron
Wonderful work!
koosievantutte
very fine b/w theme image, gun
Fidelity2
Your image is unique. 5+!!!!
lizzibell
Beautiful...
ARTWITHIN
Awesome, Gun! You really show the spinning very convincingly. The B&W makes it even more dramatic. Anything but excellence from you would be surprising.
tizjezzme
This is really cool gun; great work!
romanceworks
Most interesting. It looks like a spinning eye. CC
npauling
Great title, as this really looks to have a spin to it. Beautifully created.
novelist
Deep and reflective, dark and moody. Love this!
Chipka
Intriguing...I love glimpses into personal worlds, especially when so much can be revealed, if even obliquely. I love the black and white quality of this image, as well as the abstract nature of it. I don't see it as particularly dark, but it's rich in mood, and that's always interesting, compelling, and heck...just fun to look at and explore!
rudiruth
mystic
NekhbetSun
Excellent and brilliant image here Gun !
Djavad
Etrange, aquatique...
huismus
Beautiful!
tetsu-pino
Excellent creative work!!!
hipps13
awesome work warm hug, Linda
cvrad
looks like the begining sequence from the show "Tales from the darkside" great work
magichild2
Great piece of work.. I like what you did here..
HADCANCER
Take it from one that is spinning in place. this one is nice.
anahata.c
it's like a pearl of sight immersed in its own tears; or looking out from clear waters, hoping to grab the light. It has sadness, but also a reaching & hope. There's a pearl-like quality to it. Your waves have flesh-textures; like they are made of skin and of face. And their sensuous folds are beautiful. I know this piece comes from spinning & some pain, but you cannot avoid the light and transcendence that swims in you as well: It always seems to come out, no matter what you create. It's quite luminous, and it's beautiful. May your world get all the moreso as the days go on...
ekatz
great image
Pewter7
This is very cool surrealism!
sintoock
Excellent
lorandbartho
Great work!