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 (17)
Tanialmeida
beautiful image, stunning imagination, a masterpiece of your own design!
jyriviuhko
......and again...... It's really hard to find the right words to describe the appreciation that I feel when visiting your gallery... looking at your creations... They all hold such high standards... This one as the others are absoloutley brilliant...
cambert
Great style, composition and colours. Impressive :-)
syndroid
I really like the colors, the left eye is full of emotion.
tjames
A good presentation with minimal colors...very moody.
gallimel
the idea was fabulous. The execution is even more. The whole dark strokes around ate perfectly setting a mood. Hitchcock in earth-nuanced mood. Fabulous :)
Aeneas
Most people see the human psyche as some kind of swimming pool, and they start cleaning it by stirring the water untill the dirt from the bottom comes to the surface, and they can take it away. That's the psychoanalytic/scientific/antiseptic point of view. Mine is that it rather resembles a lake. The dirt on the bottom is completely natural, and it even serves as food for the wondrous life forms that live in the lake. Not only this cannot be cleansed, but even worse: stirring it up only makes the water dirty, muddy and less transparant, which is a threat for the life in the lake. Therefore: stop analysing yourselves, stop getting depressed by trying to remove old thoughts and emotions by calling them up and up again. It justs makes your lifes muddy and you become drained of energy and prone to a lack of mental oxygen. Just do what feels good and ok, and stop trying to be whom you were or should have been. Life's a cosmic dance, not a military parade! :)
Curious
very cool work, i like te eyes on the girl
Sunster
This is fabulous!! Colors..textures...superb! :)
yomah
I see their non-blinking eyes, I hear their flapping wings, I feel their sharp pecks... They are with me now. Thank you Ms. Gunsan for sharing. Yoshi
mooncat
Beautiful imagery!
Tommy3D
Very beautiful and powerful image!! Great work!!
Synapse
Thanks Gun for a beautiful and striking image, and thanks Aeneas for more food for thought :-)
ascrazy
Very, very beutiful image! Fantastic balance of feelings!
bevchiron
Powerful composition here Gun, these birds seem to haunt us both!! Great image ; )
borsy
Excellent artwork!! Beautiful color and composition created a very emotional image!
the_pumpkin_king
This looks just like my friend Paula. Wow. Heather