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)
ARTWITHIN
Wonderful use of Molly's branches for the Metamorphosis. This has such a mysterious quality, maybe a little dark.
koosievantutte
very fine one, gun.
Faemike55
Excellent work, Gun! delightfully spooky
mss
Nice to see that you love the ravens like I do. Very appropriate use of the branches! I love the iridescent blues in his feathers carried out around the window.
royo12
looks good!
timtripp
magical
helanker
OH This is a really gorgeous Image Gun. ! A fantastic metamorphosis. FAV
Pewter7
Very nice gothic work!
MrsLubner
A wonderful job, Gun. The mood is excellent and so is the composition.
allisonbender
Great mood and composition!!! tom
beatoangelico
beautiful image..splendid creature and excellent art..!!!
vintorix
Absolutly stunningly beautiful. Gunsan shows who that is papa, or in her case - mama. Unfortunatly I don't think that she will be allowed into the 2D competitions anymore by setting such a high standard that no one else will want to join.
mansco
Love how you have done this Gun. Really splendid ;O)
miashadows
Love the title ,excellent work !
schonee
WOW JUST AWESOME!
magichild2
Excellent piece of work...
3x3
lovely and special Gun x 5+
nosawayne
Love it!
romanceworks
Branches are very intriguing ... and so are ravens and this gorgeous image. CC
lizzibell
Beautiful work...
anaber
Absolutely Fantastic! The atmosphere is exquisite and unique!The darkness gives the necessary mistery to the image.we don´t know if we are in, or outside...The brunches are inside.Those who are outside(few) are coming in through the window .The sky is outside...Your image lives in its own.GREAT PIECE OF ART!.
anahata.c
Mina would like this, since she loves raptors...("the great ones" she once called them)...You've placed Molly's beautiful branches "inside" the stone, where they seem to be incised there; and the combination of that and the stone itself is a work of art. The Gothic-arched window has very fine texture; and the rust-like splotches across the wall could be rust, decay, leaves, or just color against the sky. The melding of wall & sky is intuitive. And the piece, overall, is beautiful. Very much yours too...fine to a high degree. Another fav.
groegnitram
the mood is so fantastic, gun, it must have to to with your play, how you combined the window and the raven, a most mystical atmosphere :))
erlandpil
Nice one again erland
three_grrr
I love images you've done with the branches. This one is wonderful, The Raven seems to reign in the ruins of a church or maybe a cathedral. Trees seem to have grown inside the place. A mystical feel to this beauty
kansas
Reminds me of Edgar Allen Poe's poem, The Raven. Excellent.
RavynGyrl
Fabulous raven...excellent job!
cvrad
This is very cool a definate fav!
mysnapz
Dropped in to catch up with you Gun, as always some inspiring and wonderful images you share with us, hope you are well and sorting things in your life. This creates a wonderful feeling of dreams of freedom. Jeff : )
ontar1
Beautiful scene and raven!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!