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 (27)
odie
Hello Gun. YES it will come and none too soon, I guess. The anticipation must be the place to find happiness so I will follow your lead in that viewpoint. This is glorious and exactly what we need right now. New life and great things our way!
icerian
You did excellent work with old fashion mood.5+
amota99517
Beautiful work!!!
danob
Simply beautiful I can envision from the honeycomb background bees pollinating those gorgeous flowers
ElizaB
excellent...has an oriental feel to me
M2A
A beautiful image, the yellow overall is sweet.
MrsLubner
Gun, this is so dynamic. Again, your artistic vision has carried your work to that lofty place in the heart and mind.
helanker
OHH Gun it is just wonderful and give us such a hope for the spring to come soon. I think it is a really lovely use of the background too. Bravo !!!
mtc
Awesome pict.
groegnitram
metamorphosis and spring is a wonderful idea, gun, it fits so wonderful together, a wonderful thought, puts a smile on my face :)
romanceworks
Your creativity is budding as beautifully as Spring. This is lovely. CC
Faemike55
Wonderful work
koosievantutte
amamzinng what you did with the image, gun.
lyron
Excellent work!!
ErisX
Ohhhh, VERY nice. Yes! I'm ready for it, too.
magichild2
Oh Gun this is fantastic. Just love it...like the dawn of a new spring day ...beautifully done.
ARTWITHIN
Beautiful spring vision, like waking with a dream still present and coloring what the eyes see.
three_grrr
There is just so much longing for spring here in the Northern Hemisphere that it just has to come a little early this year, don't you think?? This beautiful image will bring spring here for sure!
npauling
This is so very beautiful and a great harbinger of spring to come, though that means we are heading into autumn down here. Where did summer go!!!!
anahata.c
well I skipped ahead (yes, I still have pieces to catch up on!)...but had to get to this. You really did beautiful things on helle's patina-laden silver. You opened up the center, gave it a sun-burst, and layered these beautiful flowers on it, keeping them in soft-focus so they seem like a dream, or like we're seeing them through a Japanese screen. It's beautiful, and just what "metamorphosis" is about. Beautiful conception, Gun. Hope all is ok in computerland these days...you sure are turning out beautiful images!
mansco
lovely delicate beauty ;O)
schonee
WOW Beautiful!!!!
prutzworks
very nice work
cvrad
Grewat Image! I too hope for Spring and a thawing of mankind's heart towards others who are diffrent but, then that would be Magic wouldn't it?
kbatty
Lovely work!
Pewter7
Deliciously beautiful!
neoexcello
Stunning image, feels of hope and remembrance of wonderful times.