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)
ArtistKimberly
Wonderful work,
odile
This is very impressive! Bravo!
SidheRoseGraphics
Such a feeling captured here - too well. Thank you for sharing. Hugs.
claude19
splendid illustration for this title or the inverse !!!
RodolfoCiminelli
Wonderful work my friend.....!!!!
wotan Online Now!
Sad and impressive (expressive too!) Gun...
Feliciti
very meaningful !!excellent!!
caviedes
Excellent!!!!!
Faemike55
very powerful
magichild2
The piece speaks for itself. Excellently done
helanker
Yea, that looks really sad,. Gun. :/
ontar1
Wow, impressive, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
West_coaster07
Well done!
Campo-Diaz
Simply fantastic.
three_grrr
Superb capture of the mood .. one wonders, is it enforced isolation, or chosen? We had fairly long spell of damp, dark, rainy days, and for the first time in my life, I was affected by the weather, and I can understand now in a small way how this feels. Then the snows came, and I brightenedl
emmecielle
An image that makes really feel the sense of isolation and abandonment! Great work and magnificent lighting!
njb2000
Nice mood and use of space!
alessimarco
~Superb!~
npauling
Very well done and it really emphasizes the mood.
jocko500
cool image
ia-du-lin
very interesting artwork
fallen21 Online Now!
Splendid picture.
tibet2004uk
Oh yes! Love it! Minimalism's definitely my favourite style!
m_j_s
Brilliant just brilliant! Now how modern art would it have been just to have it all black? I hear the Turner prize calling :)
Pewter7
There! in the dark, unseen, aware, drawing closer ... not alone!