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 (18)
5391151
Emotional image....well done.
Dreamingbee
touching work !
Mara105
so sad and sweet image,fantastic work ^^
emmecielle
Splendid image! :)
Feliciti
really touching and beautiful effects!!...here's raining too :(
odile
Very lovely!
West_coaster07
very nice!!
wotan
Lovely creation my friend Gun... Here we need rain, very hot and sunny days!
claude19
very touching and also moving !!!
psyoshida
Nicely done! Sad though.
Faemike55
Very powerful image
jocko500
so sad wonderful done
lonely_wolf
... gorgeous mood!
caviedes
Well done!!!!
tofi
So very beautiful and touching, Dear Gun! I like this image for its delicate nature and softness of subject! Sad and sweet at the same time, with an intense emotion infused into it and throughout. Beautifuly executed!
npauling
A lovely emotional image and so true too.
magichild2
Seriously emotional...but a lovely image
three_grrr
This just exudes sadness and sorrow and loneliness .. so beautifully and sensitively created.