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 (23)
RobyHermida
Wonderful image!! :o)
kbatty
Awesome work!
helanker
It is such a lovely (to my eyes) morning scene where the elfs appeare from the underground every sunrise. Excellent Gun.
cvrad
Very dramatic image!
groegnitram
i love her pose and how the surrounding works so well together with it, most beautiful, gun :)
Faemike55
Well done!
koosievantutte
very fine image, gun.
romanceworks
Wow, like a celestial birth. Awesome image and background. CC
hipps13
wonderful colors warm hug, Linda
lyron
Awesome composition. Great work!!!
kansas
Wonderful. Reminds me of images from the Hubble telescope.
ARTWITHIN
Very emotive of suffering, Gun. I love the effect you have been using. The colors are perfect for the emotion you express.
magichild2
Wow this is totally phenomenal work...what else can I say. Love it.
TwoPynts
Waiting to be born? Surreal and wonderful!
3x3
wow!exquisite work!
danob
Superb and the light together with the pose of vulnerability asks the viewer to consider so much! True art Dear Gun
three_grrr
There is something mystical about this Gun. The imminent approach of something, the wait nearly over. A beautiful piece, filled with sensitivity, bringing many thoughts, many memories.
niek
Waiting is a favorite item of mine and a very important aspect of the human soul; One is always waiting for something. So this item and especially your image gives a lot to wonder about!! Thanks!
Marinette
Awesome work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)
mysnapz
Great cosmic feel to this image Gun : )
Pewter7
This is really superb imagery! The woman folded tightly in the warm womb of your most-pleasing background brings forth an aura as of new birth, or perhaps the silent slumber of a dream awaiting it's summoning forth into reality ... an instant favorite! Ten stars!
anahata.c
I can see the suffering suzanne speaks of and I can also see the sense of someone emerging out of the womb—but not quite out yet. Your surrounding texture is utterly your own, that 'cosmic fabric' you get, it's just unique and very inward, like it comes from way inside of us. And you've made helle's image into a kind of soul-ocean that floats over the whole picture. You sure are turning Helle's image into a journey of the soul! Another fav.
sintoock
Absolument BEAU!