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 (21)
syndroid
Seems to me it's obvious why the prison was closed, LOL Looks really arty by the way. I like the character, looking very 16th/ 17th century-ish.
dragonfly2000
Beautiful palette; like the surface treatment and also the comp. Great image.
SoulEatar
Many prisons we create for ourself - The world becomes devoid - cold - and bare - A unwelcome sadness lingers - For me your image has capture all the elements of one persons world of dispare - Excellent Work -
Odious
Beautiful piece of work... your textures and colors are wonderful...
mooncat
To me this is symbolic of female oppression, or even that proverbial glass ceiling that women could never rise above. Beautiful textures, and wonderful colors.
borsy
Excellent image!! Beautifull composition, texture and color!!!
Aeneas
We always tend to search for a way out at "eye-level" which is the obvious level for our thought-patterns and mind games. But often the real way out can be found when we manage to look from outside our habits. The word "habits" has a double sense which, in my native language, Flemish, is very clear. Yet, in English we also have the word "habitation" to indicate an isolated spot from the world, the environment where we live, safely and protected. But sometimes the place we inhabit becomes uninhabitable. Same goes for habits. These too can bacome too small, too restrictive, oppressive, uninhabitable. Then we have to take the risk of leaving them behind, coming out of our shelter, out of the known. Many people prefer not to, and when you once saw/felt the sadness of a cat sitting in front of the window, longing to get out, you also know how humans hide in their energy drained patterns, longing, but not daring to take the step into the open...Build a world where you are happy, not a shelter that should protect you because, in the end, it will suffocate you.
g_i_tammy
great work!! :O)
Synapse
Beautiful. A deeply affecting portrait with a world of its own, and an equally thought-provoking comment from Aeneas, one of the most profound things I've read for quite some time. Excellent.
gallimel
it's hard to come after Aeneas indeed :) Gun, you are giftin us with such marvels, that Renderosity shall exist already just for it :)
ijack999
Beautiful image and thanks Aeneas I needed to hear that.
Joseph
Excellent, great contrast and textures.
danob
A wonderful work of art if such art can generate such articulate commentry it is indeed very special! One of your finest among so many!
jyriviuhko
WOW!! I really don't know what to say!! So I guess I'll just sit here and stare for a while...
cynlee
quite tranquil & haunting at the same time- well done... ... ...still reeling from the image & Aeneas's comment
Tanialmeida
in both instances there is a twilight when everything remains ...
ladynimue
"Once she thought the only way to escape was to fly away, yet her wings were clipped. Instead she came upon a ladder of hope, which led her to the path of courage".
Sunster
Absolutely stunning image!! gasps Great work!
Caithream
Symbolic of both physical "prisons" and emotional ones.Exceptional piece!!! A safe harbour is all one ultimately seeks in life and hopefully finds it.
AxoNe.FLuX
theres deep sadness..like theres no hope of leaving....awsome work ^,,^
SirJohn
Ah gun, your mind is a beautiful thing in the way it works! Yet another fantastic, thought provoking image... thank you for sharing this with us.