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 (25)
wysiwig
Superb image. Your skills are amazing. I have a lot more to learn.
JuliSonne
A super idea! I love the wrinkles of life!!
5391151
Yes ...there are many.Well done.
odile
Great concept beautifully crafted
hipps13
wonderful is right warm hugs, Linda
geoffwoods
just wonderful work my friend and well said.... you need both sides of the fence to learn.
Bossie_Boots
Mine is wonderful too and i know that ride for sure in such a short time many cracks but then that someone special comes along this is awesome !!
mdfane
woooooooooooooooooooooooow!!! SUPERB 5+
lonely_wolf
Outstanding!
Feliciti
great thoughts behind this composition !! excellent done!! and indeed life is a rollercoaster...
Faemike55
Glad to hear you're doing great wonderful image
helanker
Yeah, I so recognize that feeling too. Wont like to try that again. Excellent image, Gun.
phfrancke
you made her stronger than the cracks and you gave her calm, determination, and patience. She glows out of the wall - wonderfully done!!
wotan
Sad but beautiful image... I like your poem too!
kagemusha77
Superb symbolic image, love the message here, excellent creation, very creative!
claude19
beautiful image for sad experiences or moments of the Life !!!moving creation.
emmecielle
I agree with you... life is a rollercoaster! Outstanding work! :)
tennesseecowgirl
I think we've all been there. Beautiful work!
npauling
Marvellous cracked textures in this super work and you are right, life is a real roller coaster. I'm glad yours is up at the moment.
jocko500
very lovely
Pewter7
Super blending imagery!
m_j_s
Very poignant, but it is the lows that make the highs so high! Wonderful image Gun!!
knupps
What a fantastic compotion. The postwork in this is wonderful.
clbsmiley
A wonderful image!
three_grrr
Stunning. Grabs my eyes, grabs my thoughts. How we are sometimes imprisoned in our own lives, how are lives sometimes feel like they are cast in stone and we just can't break free. And then the cracks begin to happen .. sometimes the cracks are freeing, enabling us to break free of the stone and begin to live OUR lives.