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 (21)
5391151
Very well done. (probable rain here too....but i am walking) :-)
odile
Lovely combination of colors. Well done!
geoffwoods
love the colours in this gun such a wonderful contrast. geoff.
fallen21
Excellent painting.
Feliciti
another a beautiful work ,colors and mood!! but she looks so sad or in thoughts !!
Faemike55
Very lovely image mood is very apparent
thecytron
Stunning style of portrait!
Bossie_Boots
Superb gun i too love the colours we have rain here too but has cleaned the air !!
caviedes
Love it!!!!
helanker
A very lovely image Gun :9 And it will be rain here too. But it was a wonderful summer day today :)
jclP
Very lovely image
kansas
Very nice. She looks depressed.
lyron
Wonderful colors and image!!
Pewter7
Nice painting Gun, you really are becoming quite the master at this style of artwork, I must say :)
Marinette
STUPENDA! :)
cvrad
nice work
jmb007
beau travail!!
npauling
This is how I feel today, I don't feel like doing anything. A super image with marvellous posing and great textures.
m_j_s
Beautiful melancholy mood!
knupps
Wonderful scene. Like a watercolour painting.
romanceworks
Very emotive image. We've had tons of rain here in the mountains. CC