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 (11)
Digital-Witch
Lovely and mysterious..colors are perfect..beautiful image..and seductive
gunsan
Yes Charmz, I agree with you, but when I took some steps backwards and looked,so were the eyes there. I will try to make them a bit clearer.
gunsan
Now I have made the eyes a little bit more easy to see, but just a little.
bevchiron
So beautiful & fragile, like a precious memory..
gallimel
Bevchiron said what I was and I am feeling as well :) So lovely, and delicate :) The soft pink of lips is a jewel :)
ladynimue
Oh how lucky she must be to have her lover see her vision within a butterflys wing. Such a beautiful delicate show of adoration!
Aeneas
Makes me think of one of the most beautiful poems I ever read: "The two trees" bi William Butler Yeats: "Beloved, gaze in thine own heart:/ the holy tree is growing there/ From Joy the holy branches start/ and all the trembling flowers they bear" Gun, your images radiate one razorsharp message: the message that, even if things are difficult and the path is dangerous and narrow, there is still hope. My heart thanks you for that.
Char
This is so beautiful! It's so soft and I love how the eyes blend with the spots on the wings :)
Charmz
had to delete my previous comment to up the rating, this image is so gorgeous, so incredibly precious.
brianwilliam
comes through like an impressionists painting. is gorgeously done
yomah
I see light in your memories, this is a wonderful way to remember. This type of haunting is good for the soul. Yoshi