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 (24)
5391151
Very cool....i love wood and stone.
West_coaster07
Very nice work!!!
mermaid
what a beauty, and oh yes I know that one ;)
bimm3d
look like an abstract human face!! wonderful image!!
fallen21
Fantastic image.
claude19
...like splendid abstract !!! wonderful !
wotan
Fascinating colors and txt... Your obsession is mine too, I love rock shapes and textures! Hope that you post some of these images here!
caviedes
Well done!!!!
odile
Beautiful colors and thee pattern makes an abstract image. Well done.
thecytron
Great texture!
Faemike55
Very cool
HannaK
Beautiful! I know what you mean - I had my "stone" period too. By the way, a very good exercise for those who want to learn painting to sit with a piece of rock and to copy each and every colour
Feliciti
beautiful structures/textures and colourtones !!
helanker
OHHH GOSH!! It is awesome Gun. Love it. More plz. :)
jmb007
beau travail!
jocko500
wonderful done
ontar1
Beautifully done, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
m_j_s
Ignoring the inspiration and indeed the actuality of this piece, it works beautifully as an abstract piece Gun! It allows the viewer to get lost in the myriad of structures and patterns the mind creates while viewing it! Although I must admit that now that I have seen it in my mind I cannot shake it off. A lying user the large rock to the left as we look and its head the bottom of the central rocks. Wonderful piece, I love it!! Martin
emmecielle
Beautiful work! :)
drifterlee
Wonderful work!
geoffwoods
now your talking love this one gun got to be a fav
Dreamingbee
beautiful !
romanceworks
Marvelous rock formations and colors. Very artistic. CC
three_grrr
what is it about rocks that draws us to them? We even have brought rocks home from the Hollow to add to our garden, and rocks from Scoby Hill when we were there. I have rocks from places we have vacationed in my garden, LOL! This is an amazing piece, I see it as it is, rocks, but it would also make a marvelous abstract .. either way, there are many things one can see in the lines and shadows of this beautiful work.