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 (31)
Faemike55
Very nice! of course it's too cold to go wading in it!
koosievantutte
what a great place and so beautifully done.
M2A
This is so wonderful, i love your stylish for this piece of nature. Remarkable artwork Gunsan. You did this with a program or by hand ?
MrsLubner
In this masterpiece, you have made me feel as if I am a part of this place...a bit of bark on a tree, a tuft of grass, a bubble of rushing water in the stream. I am so comfortable here. Outstanding work.
3x3
lovely capture with a painted feeling!
lyron
Excellent work!!
helanker
OH GUN! It is such a lovely painting. I feel I could sit there all day.
cvrad
very lovely nice POV!
ARTWITHIN_II
What a beautiful and inviting image. Excellent work.
ElizaB
beautiful art...you have captured the "soul" of this place
timtripp
excellent
groegnitram
its so very beautiful gun, the dark wood and the bright reflections on the water work so well together :)
jgmart
Excellent landscape!
Mondwin
Amazing image...bravissima my Dear Gun...V:DDD.Hugsxx Whylma
NekhbetSun
Nature in all her glory...I can see why you like this so much Gun !
mysnapz
wonderful little slice of the landscape,love the leaves hanging one till the last : )
romanceworks
Yes, the water always tells such a lovely story of the seasons. And this flowing stream in your special forest is very beautiful. CC
odie
How lovely! It reminds me I'd like to take the kids to Yellowstone this summer. It's been years since I've been West but this stumbling river and the framing branches bring it all back for me. You've captured a wonderful space in time and given bits of it to us once again.
hipps13
beautiful work I bet you do enjoy warm hug, Linda
danob
Quite superb you certainly get such a natural feel for this lovely place you have created
kansas
Oh what a beautiful place! Excellent.
schonee
WOW this is Beautiful Hun!
npauling
A beautiful little stream and work.
RavynGyrl
Very peaceful. Beautiful work!
rudiruth
so you must have been just around the corner ;) I have a little stream like that few steps from my house and I love to go there too. It looks just like yours :) Hugs Ruth
kbatty
How peaceful!
RobyHermida
Excellent work!!
Pewter7
Really lovely artwork! It is so nice to see where you have been and to see what your eyes have seen. It is wonderfully intimate, almost as if we were there beside you! Thank you for sharing with us :)
magichild2
Beautiful work ...lovely painting.
anahata.c
I know I'm skipping around, I'm just trying to criss-cross my way over what I missed...I've always loved your painterly treatments of landscapes; this one is very quiet & feels like a mix of oil and watercolor (not an easy mix to emulate!). And the subtle light you create—in the center—is beautiful & quiet. Your treatment makes the scene look very intimate. The trees criss-cross the water with beautiful softness too...Another beautiful transformation; as much a metamorphosis as the formal ones in the 2D monthly metamorphoses. And peaceful too.