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 (6)
gallimel
my low work today allows me to surf and so.. again i have the delightening pleasure of commenting first your work. You make red being warm... then you make it crepitant and thoughtful. The awesome delicate blending on the thoughtful face simply is divine.
Synapse
This is my favourite of your styles. Almost nothing is there, it leaves so much to the imagination, so warm, so ethereal, full of subdued texture, and so dreamy. Great :-)
abmlober
I agree with Synapse and Meli: Your use of colour and textures is very appealing, and the message is clearly visible.
mooncat
This is truly remarkable and sublime, and the richness of the colors is just wonderful. I see a face cocooned in a shroud of the richest silk.
yomah
The same threads that blind our eyes, stitch shut the mouth. Sometimes the threads of our past weave a tapestry of tragedy... but even a patchwork quilt is a beautiful work of art... This is indeed an eye opening work of art. Yoshi
Tanialmeida
... Yoshi couldn't say it better!