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 (22)
m_j_s
Oh wonderful Gun, it looks like it is a sculpture! Good luck with your computer! Martin
odile
this is very nice!
emmecielle
Excellent work! :)
5391151
Strong chiseled features.
claude19
once more excellent !
geoffwoods
brilliant gun just brilliant.....Geoff
Faemike55
Very beautiful work. I hope that things go well with you on the reformat
tofi
How gorgeous, Dear Gun! Such a beautiful texture about it, and such an intensity about her expression. This is tremendously composed!
bimm3d
love it!!
helanker
Very lovely indeed, Gun. So sorry about your virus. I will send you a sitemail.
fallen21
Awesome work!
Feliciti
this painting looks really like a stone sculpture !!! wonderful done!!
Bossie_Boots
I agree brilliant and i love your style this is outstanding for me one of your best !!
ushie
brilliant ! x
caviedes
Well done, and good look my friend!!!
lyron
Great work!!
danob
Fine work Gun good luck with the PC
jocko500
wonderful image. hope you the best with your computer
stolta
Wow, excellent beautiful work!!!
Pewter7
Hi my friend. A lovely painting here, very nicely presented. Sorry to hear of your 'puter problems! May I suggest a great (and free) security program called Comodo TimeMachine? This allows you to create snapshots of your system and to restore your system very easily. Hope this helps. Also, Microsoft finally got serious about these things and their new security antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials is quite good.
three_grrr
I hope you have no problems reformatting, that all goes well. You have achieved that fresco style feeling in a most excellent manner Dear Gun! I knew before I even looked at the title who this was! A wonderful work.
ia-du-lin
beautiful artwork, great texture and lighting