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 (11)
Bossie_Boots
I know the feeling and again gun for me this is outstanding !!
odile
Very strong picture. It speaks well for this terrible disorder.
romanceworks
Like she is fading away. Very poignant work. CC
Faemike55
Excellent work
jclP
excellent
cvrad
superb statement of a very destructive desease.
knupps
We got the message but this is beautiful image. A contradiction? Maybe.
emmecielle
Your image is very strong... it could be used as a manifest against anorexia, an ugly beast! A really interesting work! :)
m_j_s
Very thought provoking Gun, its almost fetal in its shape, which lends to it a wonderful sense of Innocence! The hair is so pronounced, the body so lithe and the foot comes from nowhere - though the mind extends a leg from it and thus connecting the whole. The face and hence what many of us consider to be personality is beautifully vague! Another little Gem from your stable. Martin
npauling
I know the feeling about all the beautiful images but it gives me something to aspire to make. This girl looks really thin but she has a lovely form to her. Excellent textures and concept.
three_grrr
She speaks of so many things, of what drove her to anorexic behaviour, what keeps her there, and longing to escape it. Again, you've reached deep into our souls for a response .. the difficult thing is to put it into words. A beautiful yet disturbing image. Most certainly a challenge to the beauty of the original, and yet you've kept both the beauty and the message