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 (20)
borsy
Excellent artwork!! Powerful and beautiful! I've had dreams like this!
tibet2004uk
WOW! Now this is a very powerful image! Kind of anguishing mood despite the beautiful and warm colors! It's all those stairs leading nowhere! Frightening! Wonderful piece Gun! :)
chucksiebuhr
Haunting and deep. Escher would have liked this. Love the colors/textures.
jocko500
stair to noways and the place looks like it going to fall down super job
Lissa_lei
Excellent design and image Gun, Like an ascending and descending spiral where you run around but get no where. Great colours and an anguished and despairing theme running through it. Like it very much <<<<
creanum
Great artwork, love the colors.....
Zemela
Oh, excelent, the idea to use Escher stairs is brilliant and describes the atmosphere perfectly!
Digimon
Awesome, the combination of stylistic photography, and the very Ecsher background is wonderful!!!
cbender
inside out...
i love this one gun - it's very strong... very good!
abmlober
This looks very good. I hope you do not feel this way too often...
i-popba
ohhh......wonderful work....this is best texture and tone....well done
logiloglu
a strong vision, Gun.very touching image. !!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!!
DarkFlame
Whoa...its like escher met dennis dyack in a nightmare O_o
cynlee
i know... overbearing despair i get from this or maybe it's in my own mind... beautifully done gun :]
wildfire2003
Wonderful colors and atmosphere. Fantastic job!
groush2
Excellent Art ...Powerful Imagery !!!!!
Varian
Strong imagery, well done. Really expresses a nightmarish feeling of being trapped.
Pliadian
Most beautiful and somehow disquiteing.Um but its wonderful:o)
mysnapz
Fantastic Gun I have had it in my head to make one of these for ages. Again you inspire me. :O )
SirJohn
I agree with chuck... Escher would have liked this too methinks. I sure can feel the despair of this image gun, I'm sure that most of us have had at least some experience with the feelings this image invokes.