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 (18)
jyriviuhko
Why gloomy?! An absoloutley fabolous image... I like the way you worked in time in it... Is this the reason... time??
looter
you are an aries like me. and now i know two people that share this..happy (yes happy)birthday to you. time..is a concept. not a sentance.beautiful piece.
Tanialmeida
time ... time is all we got ... oh how i've been missing this gallery! xzllent work!
danob
Wonderful again yeah its a sobering thought but have great one nevertheless!
madame
Fantastic atmosphere and very elegant image. I love it !
SirJohn
Fantastic work gun. I hope the completion of this made you feel a little bit better. As I said before, happy birthday gun. I look forward to seeing many more of your pre-birthday images in the future!
borsy
Absolutely beautiful!!! Hope you have a wonderful birthday!!!
Synapse
Shades of The Persistence of Memory, cool and flaccid, plastered with paranoid thoughts of mortality. Good one again :-)
Heart'Song
It IS frightening, isn't it? To love this life and beauty so much, and feel it slipping? The only way of looking I've ever found useful is to twist my eyes sideways and flow WITH the molten river. I don't know if that's helpful. But anyway, I thank you for your gifts and wish you many happy returns of the day.
Sunster
Wonderful image...the way you've worked the timepiece devine! Hold on to your memories! Have a delightful well-deserved Birthday!! :)
Tommy3D
Wow super image!! So true about time. Happy Birthday!! :)
AxoNe.FLuX
beautifull....sorry bout your gloom...happiest birthday wishes ^,,^
gallimel
Beautifully touchin, so expressive... well dear.. happy Easter and happy Birthday to you my dear. Thank you for giftin us with your art and lovely heart :)Don't be shadowed. As you bring much light to us, that you must feel inside the grace of your own living :)It is BIG :)
acej
Beautifull ... frightening ... - I know what you're trying to say with this piece of excellent artwork: It's true and it's frightening.
mooncat
Oh no gloomy thoughts, Happy Easter and Happy birthday. This is beautiful!
shemosus
stunning.......you realy make me so........sad.
Caithream
Ahhh,as I do,but then there are those who's memories return them to a time that cannot be changed.For me,I realize it as grieving ,not for myself, but for the child who whispers within my heart saying wishes don't come true.My elder sister was born the same day.........Beautiful as always,and truth for some of us.
ascrazy
time...Superb ARTIMAGE!!! Beautiful!!! Beautiful!!!