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 (29)
Domi48
Remarquable.
alessimarco
~Fantastic!!~
jclP
very good
odile
Dead End? Very beautiful work.
lonely_wolf
What a feeling! Great work!
Faemike55
Excellent work I think we've all had days like this
emmecielle
A very striking image! Fantastic work! :)
three_grrr
Oh my, you've captured this feeling so perfectly .. seems that we ALL know this feeling!
SIGMAWORLD
Interesting image and title.
soffy
Beautiful expressive work,excellent****
magichild2
Quite a lovely image and one that I can personally relate to. My daughter does this when she cannot deal with stress.
npauling
The textures and posing look fabulous in this lovely image. I hope she doesn't bang her head too hard, but sometimes it feels like this doesn't it.
Richardphotos
very intense render.it is so sad when one is so despondent to hit their head
jocko500
wonderful done
hipps13
wonderful work stares warm hugs, Linda
bimm3d
wonderful image and great idea!!
fallen21
Excellent work.
thecytron
Nice work!
jmb007
superbe et expressif!
ontar1
Impressive, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stolta
Wow, fantastic work!!!
Pewter7
This is really lovely artwork, Gun. Her pose captures your title so well, but so much more than that, it displays her fragility and slender vulnerability, her beauty encased within innocence, and her seeming frustration with events rather beyond her control. The painting textures enhance all this in a pleasing manner. Sometimes, things are more manageable to us and easier to cope with when we stop trying to change the circumstance and instead change the way WE respond to it...
romanceworks
Hard moments to get through but always worth it. Superb and very emotive image. CC
gonzojr
This is very nice work.
tizjezzme
This is great..........
m_j_s
A very nice picture!!
geoffwoods
I love the textures and the emotion just superb ,Geoff
5391151
Right to the point.
Ilona-Krijgsman
awesome work, I really like this expression