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 (14)
Ilona-Krijgsman
Awesome work...so much to see in this image.....
Faemike55
Excellent postwork. Everyone has a mask that they hide behind
mickeyrony
Hmmm ...... Have all had a little side where our double or triple it interfere Personalities flavors of our requests. The subconscious makes us the reality, and extreme invades us of our hopes. But reality soon enough to deliver us as natural. Bravo. Post a magic in itself? ((5 + +)) Hummm...... Ont a tous un petit côté où notre double où triple personnalité y interfèrent les saveurs de nos demandes . Le subconscient nous rend la réalité ,et l'extrême nous envahit de nos espoirs . Mais la réalité nous remet assez vite au naturel comme . Bravo . un post magique en soi?? ((5++))
romanceworks
Fascinating image. We all wear masks, hiding things from others as well as ourselves. CC
helanker
Let the mask fall and you are free. :-) Excellent image, Gun :)
MrsLubner
Perhaps you and I have much in common... Anyway, the duality of this image is fabulous. A very powerful statement. Great image.
anaber
Great transformation and question. It would be good if NO MASKS:)in my view...persons will be much less alone, simply!
magichild2
We all have a bit of a mask at times. Excellently done.
Pewter7
Nice to see you have your Muse back, my friend! A thought-provoking and intriguing image, well done!
efron_241
late here too.. 1.43 in the morning but too much to see to go to sleep great art.. super clearly the muse is back
npauling
Very imaginative work for a wonderful and haunting result. Outstanding image.
cvrad
we all wear diffrent mask at diffrent times. Very few ever see the real pesrson inside and then sometimes even we lose site of that inner person we are.
three_grrr
It seems as I get older, I wear the many masks less and less. It's funny how there is a mask for every occasion, and even for each person. We try so hard to live up to other's expectations of us, so we wear a different mask for each person, for each event. The pious mask for church, the martyr's mask when asked to do much but don't know how to say no, and so on and on. A very deep and perceptive image ..
emmecielle
Fantastic postwork! :)