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)
MrsLubner
Such a tender and beautifully done piece.
anahata.c
very soft, gun, and somehow you made their coats look like soft fur, dappled & downy as the coat of puppies. Even more delicate is your softening of the water or sky (it looks like water to me): You made the background look like a delicate shag or plush carpeting. Really, your animal paintings ask us, gently, that we sit with them and look closely: They're very subtle and always very inward & sensuous. It's quite restful and, like so much of your animal painting, quiet & really intimate.
helanker
OH how lovely this is. They look so relaxed and in harmony. A very lovely painting Gun :)
koosievantutte
fine image, gun
mansco
Ummmm ... I'm from Gibraltar, Gun, and this brings me a lot of lovely memories. They are great thieves (they love sweets), if they hear a noise in your pockets they go running for it, he he he. I can give you some info of them. They are really called Barbary Apes, (Macaca Sylvanus) and are tail-less monkeys and they are the only free-roaming monkeys in Europe. Natives of North Africa, their presence in Gibraltar probably dates from the early days of the British garrison when it is presumed that they were imported as pets or even game, inevitably finding the rough limestone cliffs and scrub vegetation a congenial habitat. Many legends have grown up around them. One is that they travelled from their native Morocco via a subterranean tunnel starting at St Michael's Cave leading down underneath the strait. The fact is that the apes are firmly established on the Rock. Today, in addition to the pack resident at Apes Den, there are five other packs living wild on the steep slopes of the Rock. ;O) Great work, my friend!
ARTWITHIN_II
Beautiful work on this sweet image of a couple of little thieves. LOL They don't look like thieves to me, but that is what would make me a major victim of these sweeties. LOL
schonee
So cute!!!Thank you for sharing with us
Pewter7
A lovely, sweet and tender image, Gun. I always love it when our artists share a little about themselves with their posts. Good to hear from you this way :)
magichild2
Very lovely image and great work
romanceworks
A wonderful painting of these sweeties. And interesting about your ex. CC
smillinfaces
sweet your capture
npauling
You have got these sleepy little monkeys looking so soft and adorable.
NekhbetSun
Soooo cute :o)
kansas
A very nice painting of these funny little guys.
novelist
So sweet and soft and tender.
three_grrr
Such sweet innocense! To think they will become devilish thieves is hard to believe! You have again created a magical painting!
kbatty
They are darling!!
ontar1
Fantastic scene, excellent work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
lorandbartho
Looks great!