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 (11)
g_i_tammy
beautiful :O)
crrunchyfrog
Very beautiful image Gun, I find it very serene and I hope that one day you will understand ;)
Tanialmeida
stars are full of dreams ;0] beautifull work!
Barbarellany
Beautiful image.
Dotthy
Beautiful picture and idea!!!
irix.
stunning beatuiful work
borsy
Beautifully done!!
gallimel
This is a dream.. If you've started the Month Theme this way dear, it will be still hard to make something similarly wonderful , from all of us, even if we have more than 20 days for thinkin about it. Awesome.
shemosus
a flood of softness and tenderness invaded my mind , when i saw this one.. well done my friend
ladynimue
Oh what wonders behold the youth, within their hands and hearts our future is held.
Zinnia
The light on her face from her hand brings me into the art and stirs my imagination as to what the orb looks like from her eyes. Then... I feel calmly powerful, wise, and safe. That a loving power is holding and caring for all. Beautiful!