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 (10)
daeve
Don't worry, I won't. Nice pic.
crrunchyfrog
Looks like a game of hide and go seek ;) Love it Gun :D
gallimel
Oh my.. the secretely shattering acceptance, those eyes so wondering why a mouth can speak, so neverthelessy following the order. This image.. is so incerdibly touching and revealing of a sensitive heart. Great work.
abmlober
Having two little children I feel touched by this image... Can't say exactly what I feel...
JC_73
blocked in speeching, spoiled in the soul. passive resistence or massive insistence
ladynimue
"Oh what secrets the young do keep when silenced by the need to speak!" ladynimue (Dee-Marie)
Legion-Khan
I had not seen this work before and I have an unfair advantage since I now know the subject matter behind it. Brilliant idea for such a dark and upseting topic. There is a very real sense of darkness and hurt, the grunge and the locked mouth represents this well...excellent work.
Caithream
I know this one in my heart,I was this child..Is this your emotion here?,if anothers you have absorbed it and delivered it through your work.Exceptional.....
Zinnia
The eyes. Beautiful engaging eyes. They draw me into the art. Then I see the pad lock and the rusty reds. I want to scream out but I cannot. The image will stay in my thoughts.
nikita_s_cold
Childhood is a hard and vulnerable place for most children in the world. If we manage to reach adulthood it is a miracle. I know what it is to keep a secret...