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)
Chipka
I love the texture in this and the way it looks so perfectly hand made. The colors are superb and I love the wispy, foggy shape as if the thought actually passed between her and the viewer, leaving the question of whose thought it actually was! This is marvelous and nicely intimate work.
5391151
very cool.
jocko500
very lovely looking
Bossie_Boots
As always amazing work of art !!
Feliciti
wonderful mood in this !! excellent done!!
npauling
I love how you have depicted this thought passing by. A superb work.
Faemike55
Very beautiful portrait, Gun! Glad that everything is going well and I look forward to more pictures of Pixie and the puppies
odile
Very nice texture for this lovely portrait.
Dreamingbee
so wonderful ..
hipps13
wonderful warm hugs, Linda
fallen21
Awesome portrait!
claude19
what a splendid funny portrait with an excellent texture ! I like the smile very muich ! very human creature !!!
emmecielle
Wonderful portrait! :)
kagemusha77
Lovely, delicate, superb creation!
geoffwoods
superb image Gun as always love the beautiful warm colours.
caviedes
Well done!!!!
helanker
There is such a peace ver this image and the texture and colors in this are wonderful.
three_grrr
What a superb image! The whisper of fog is such a wonderful way to make that thought more apparent to the viewer. Like Chipka, I wonder whose thought it was ..
KaToFel
Seen by me too...
HeavensBlonde
AMAZING
ia-du-lin
wonderful image great portrait