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 (26)
logiloglu
a very expressive image. i think i know this feelings you want show here. superb work, Gun. !!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!!!
Synapse
A subterranean cave? Whatever, I love the mood you've created here... good choice of colour scheme :-)
cbender
wow - this is great gun - i love her eyes - they're very expressive... :) okay okay - i'm an "eye-addicted" :))
Varian
Yes cool, perfect colors for the feeling. It could be a lady walking down the late-night street hearing footsteps following, or as Jim refered to, "a subterranean cave" - although I'd think of it more a subcerebrum, i.e. feelings within her thoughts, expressed in a visual metaphor. Nice work!
cynlee
he's following me ! i just know it! o.O! yikes! ...oh yeah... i see the cave, makes a neat layer! :]
Meyrink
Un lavoro romantico e misterioso, bello!!!
SoulEatar
Now this is a mystery - When does the movie open - great image !!
abmlober
Suspicious. Just the right title. No image to brighten my day... A very good work.
wildfire2003
Well, that's me in the nutshell, sorry to say! Wonderfully captured Gun!
chucksiebuhr
Gun, I agree with SoulEatar, and this would make a great movie poster or mystery novel book cover! Great mood setter with the title, too!
tibet2004uk
Looks very prehistoric to me! The mood that is! It's that "cave effect"! Very well done and mysterious!! :)
Jay7347
Really cool image...like the look! -jay
titta
Great ideas above of your impressive image! I have another thought: we might be suspicious because we are told everywhere how much we have to be afraid of strangers.... especially women aren't allowed to walk on dark streets, 'cause they are always in danger.... Suspiciousness feeds suspicious mind. We can't trust anybody or anything... Yet that's what it is about in those thrillers, in novels and in movies:-)
jwdell
Fantastic atmosphere, Awesome work!!!!
borsy
Excellent artwork!! I love the drama of this piece!!!
janlabes
touching image and beautiful art!!! thank you very much!!
Kropot
See what you express, excellent work. Bit creepy, I can feel my backspine.
sittingblue
Beautifully done! very impactful!
kiwidoc
Very strong, very powerful and very Film Noir - with an almost menacing edge to it. Excellent!
Zemela
Great atmosphere and expression, you did it excelent!
nikita_s_cold
I feel like that sometimes: never certain of what's around the next corner or down a certain path. Sometimes we walk into our own traps, whether from the past, or the present/future. All we can do in the now is to be wary. I think everyone is haunted. Very evocative piece, Gun.
jocko500
the girl is thinking" i just know my boyfrird is out there looking for another girl ;that no good boyfriend of mine.Why do i put up with him?" in her mind she sees him walking down dark places looking for girls for no good reasons. //super job
i-popba
Awesome work!!!!..Great concept gun....love it...
mysnapz
I like the atmosphere of this Gun, super title you are really sparking peoples imaginations with this.:0 )
KingPtolemy
Beautiful atmosphere!!! Excellent work!!!
Nilla
This is really cool and the title says it all, the story is in her eyes! :)