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 (12)
Charmz
Very broody and interesting... except.. that one arm or whatever.. where does it come from? at the left hand side of the picture.
gunsan
Well, it is not the arm, it's the leg that climbs up.
mooncat
Beautiful imagery, the forms and colors are so well integrated. It's as if the sea has shaped itself into the form of a human and emerges shedding the excess water like a cloak.
abmlober
I like this dreamlike image very much.
Barbarellany
Brings to mind a misty, mysterious birthing. Well done.
gallimel
again, you are an inspiration for my days and nights :)
Legion-Khan
ALmost a birth of Venus in the mists...interesting stuff...
SirJohn
Cool image Gun... this gives me a sense of foreboding. Like preparing to meet a particularly brutal storm.
g_i_tammy
great work. thanks so much for sharing this :O)
danob
This is a very atmospheric image Gun, The mood and sense of shape and form are all superb, the head is bowed forward I assume perhaps more detail there? Anyway I love it the way it is!!
Tanialmeida
great and meaningful concept! be brave!
ladynimue
Very emotional imagery, I love how she is emerging from the water, as water reflects birth. Leaving her past worries and trials behind to be born anew.