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.
Proud to be featured on Check it out! My other galleries. http://gun-legler.artistwebsites.com/
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)
Kropot
There is a sad component is this work. It has lots of emotions in it. Sad but stunning images. I like it.
efry_e
Too bad there's no rating ........... It's absolutely beautifully lost... lost within the arms of sweet sadness. so sweet and painful.
Synapse
The truth can be all too brutal ;-)
This image really rides a balance, like a heartbreaking fairytale.
Tanialmeida
u are so right Gun, even fantasy bubbles can't protect us from cruel reality, this image speacks volumes to me!!!
danob
What a talent you are either side of the emotional line!! Real art like life is full of pain and joy...
Tommy3D
I agree with danob, one cannot appreciate the happiness of life without enduring the pain. Absolutly beautiful artwork!!
mysnapz
Such compelling image Gun the eyes just hold your attention. :0 )
cbender
thanks for the experience, having seen that picture - ist gorgeous
jyriviuhko
That's so true.. Love it though!
cynlee
they can help... & keep the sadness at bay... another super image from a bubblishious series :]
shemosus
looking in those eyes , makes my heart shivers , imagining what sort of pain he might be facing ....i missed that sort of art , yours gun....excellent and painfull!!
JC_73
dreambubbles aren't painkillers - better to say that painbubbles are dreamkillers (sounds like a pun, but it's not)
estevez
Excellent composition and beautiful effects ! Great idea ! Congratulations !
SirJohn
Reality?? Please define. Excellent work gun, I love the color scheme of this remarkable composition.
Agny
What can I say, it is really cool.
borsy
Excellent artwork!!!!
kd_kedar
So true...Excellent job gun
Z39_Keeper
Almost enought to make you cry -- your work is very moving -- I would say it is the eyes of your models that say the most -- and they way you have tem look at us