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 (32)
borsy
Excellent work of art!!!
Digimon
Beautiful model!!! Nice work, very interesting texture!!!
Lissa_lei
Just beautiful Gun, every thing just comes together so well, and the eyes are wonderful. A really lovely work <<<<<<<<
Varian
What a wonderful combination!!
titta
Sometimes a veil doesn't hide but reveals by making us concectrate on the basics. Wonderful use of apo fractals and lights / shadows! Mysterious, and so captivating look in her eyes. Real beauty:-D
nikita_s_cold
Everyone has secrets. Everyone hides behind a veil...until we have faces. She's haunting, Gun; as Shakespeare might say - wonderfully strange.
jocko500
great textures and colors
cynlee
cool use of the fractal... you have a wonderful way of knowing just which textures to combine! & color... very expressive with an aura of mystery! :]
tibet2004uk
Fantastic model and mood here Gun!! I love that ray of light on the left, it really gives another dimension to the image!
abmlober
You wonderfully captured this face...
janlabes
oh, this is so beautiful!!! cool!! thank you very much!!!
creanum
Great artwork.......
chucksiebuhr
Ah, another great image. Gun, you are doing some extraordinary work !!
logiloglu
a fantastic and very magical image, Gun. some parts remind me to an agyptian godness.superb and a big vote !!!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!
SoulEatar
Kinda looks like the NGeo face but I know it is not :) - Very powerful work !
gunsan
NGeo???
wildfire2003
Love the texture and the fractal adds mystery. Very beautiful and moody Gun!
i-popba
powerful work ! Excellent texture and tone gun..!!!....love...love...love it.[VOTE]
unstrung65
...ahhh -- the corrugated veil!....this image is mesmerizing...( VOTE )
Fogge
Wonderful image. Excellent work!
MOOOW
Wow ,This is wonderful artwork,texture and lighting are amazing,new technic ,Well down
Zemela
Very interesting and powerful work, you did great element combination here!
mysnapz
Cool combo Gun I like the vertical lines across the face, it has a cosmic feel to it. Nice one. :0 )
jwdell
Wow!! Awesome work, gets my vote
KingPtolemy
Very interesting composition and concept!!! Excellent work!!!
Rykk
WAy cool image! Very haunting vibe and I like the texturing and creative composition. Outstanding work!
NataLibera70
Wonderful, excellent image!!!
Nilla
Wow! Excellent image, textures and tone! Love this work, for it is excellent! :)
ShadowWind
Powerful expression and colors...
RubyLips
Intriging and Mystifing..Color combinations work together with your incrediable use of textures to make this image unforgetable...I can`t stop looking at her ....her eyes hold you you fast in that hipnotic stare!!!!I Love this so DARN much!!!I really do!