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)
Tutte
Can totally relate.
Palaemon
Sad but very beautiful image !
lonely_wolf
Simply great!
DamirCizmok
Really good work!
jclP
beautiful image
rocdan
great expression
SidheRoseGraphics
A perfect capture of that feeling in this image. The colors make it even moreso. Excellent work, Gunsan!
RodolfoCiminelli
Excellent and very creative realization....!!!
MacMyers
Very well done. Conveys the Feeling of emptiness very well.
claude19
bad feeling but a splendid creation about this miind's mood!!!
wotan
Great lighting and depth here... beautiful PW as usual Gun!
caviedes
Lovely!!!!
Faemike55
Very good work on this feeling
odile
This is beautiful!
Feliciti
perfect done ....like the mood!
tofi
Such a sad image of this young woman.... one can totally feel what she is feeling through such magnificent realism and expression. Seems as though she is peering through a window... very lovely, Dear Gun.
ontar1
Beautiful and sad girl, love her expression and the lighting, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
helanker
A really beautiful image, but oh so sad too :)
magichild2
Great piece of work you've done here.
npauling
She looks so sad here but as if she is hiding her feelings too. Very well done.
tibet2004uk
Love the light here, very dramatic.
romanceworks
Your work always captures such deep emotion. CC
kansas
Well done. I can't relate to that feeling, however.
5391151
Soooo well done !
three_grrr
Gun how do you do it? You've again captured the deep soul feelings of someone .. and so beautifully, so sensitively.