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 (22)
danob
Another stunner Gun beautiful work
timtripp
Marvelous. Gotta love the eye!
ARTWITHIN
Lovely, melancholy image. I love the colors and an eye is always effective in grabbing our attention.
MrsLubner
a run-a-way imagination that has blossomed into a mystical image.
Faemike55
That is very cool looking! Well done
3dsync
Very nice 2D image!!
three_grrr
Is that you peering through the blossoms? Lovely April Fool's posting!
koosievantutte
very fine image gun, i love the velvet look very much.
helanker
Very lovely Gun. I like the gorgeous colors and raindrops.
groegnitram
dito with suzanne, the melancholy is caught so fine and there are often this flowing lines and shapes in your images, like brush strokes, it makes it so alive to the eye :)
anahata.c
just beautiful gun, swirling, almost dripping, filled with waves & energies & a violet-grayish tone which is just right for April (because April is still wintry and a little gray). Passionate; and the eye, as in one of suzanne's recent uploads, fits right into the swirls; it's entirely part of the whole. Beautiful, as always.
vintorix
Very beautiful flowers, you don't know if they are painted or photographed! This blue? colour I wonder what it has for name? ?
ontar1
Just love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
magichild2
Great composition...love how you created it.
romanceworks
Gorgeous and full of mystery, too. CC
i-popba
Wonderful work...love tone and mood...well done
beatoangelico
LOVE THE IMAGE....WELL DONE..!!!!
ascrazy
"hypnotic glance", beautiful work:-)
Pewter7
Cool...and kinda creepy with that eye lurking in there ...
novelist
I love the mystery the eye gives to this image. And it has so much expression--sort of all seeing, curious and I feel shyness as well. I always love your texture work, and the colors are beautiful. Great title for this.
cvrad
Very cool!
anaber
It´s very intimate and looks like an abstraction. I love the colour and the integration of the eye gives an interesting mistery to your image.And i have just one thought:it´s alive.