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)
NefariousDrO
Super textures, looks wonderful!
odie
It is just wonderful to gaze at. I can't decide if it is water or textured glass! Whatever it is you can see the light glowing from behind (or underneath). It makes me want to get closer and touch it. OR...to see what other light colors filter through these textures. Very well done!
ARTWITHIN
That is really wonderful. I love the effects applied to Helle's background. Creative and fun image of wonderful textures.
Fidelity2
This image is a very well done masterpiece on your part. 5+.
Faemike55
It's great that you've got your computer problems behind you and you can now create such great images as this! Well done
ekatz
wonderful depth to this texture
lyron
Wonderful texture!!
helanker
AW AW This is a freeking excellent texture. I am in love. FAV !!!!
groegnitram
wonderful relaxed play, gun, and i wish you more relaxed hours away from computer trouble!
koosievantutte
it's a joy to look at it too!
Gaiadriel
Ohmygosh, Gun...what an eye feast! A beautiful glistening liquidity, but solid as rock. This image is rather a conundrum, and I totally adore it! On with the playfulness... :)
romanceworks
Oh, this is quite fascinating. There is something alive about it. CC
schonee
Great Texture! Hun
ElizaB
The texture is superb
magichild2
gun...your lightening and textures are amazing...wow
npauling
Lovely texture with the look of stone.
tofi
So richly textured, with such precision and clarity, Dear Gun! Reminds me of water that is changing slowly into something crystallized; so very delicate and beautiful... I think you've most certainly captured the essence of the metamorphosis theme! A wonderful soothing and flowing feeling accompanies what I am viewing.... excellent and masterful artpiece!
three_grrr
Wonderful news .. not it's time to play!! This is what I see in your delightufl texture play: I am high, high, riding along in a satellite (they have compartments now for people, giggles) and I am looking down at the earth as we are passing over the Himalayas. Not a cloud in the skies today, a perfectly clear day! What luck!
Marinette
Great Texture,wonderful work!:)
Pewter7
Is it just me, or do I see a face in there? Excellently done, Gun :)
kansas
I like it. Looks like a gnarled old tree.
cvrad
Great looking texture!
anahata.c
yes Helle's background is in the background, but you captured the essence of it, its inner glow. That's part of the art of metamorphosis I think...It's a silvery-golden chunk of underground metal or rock; and it feels like it's glowing from its own light. Beautiful; and, to me, of the essence of Helle's original image...