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)
Kropot
There is a waiting feel in this work. Its striking how so little lines can tell so much.
briarwitch
Its the eyes. Very strong. ~lost
visionart
Superb texture and colour Gun!!
~VOTE~kansas
An interesting piece of artwork. Penetrating eyes.
CrystalSkyes
I get the feeling the eyes would follow me everywhere if it were hanging on my wall, as if it held a secret. Well done!
Lissa_lei
Strange espression, not sad, not glad, not anythin I can think of, but evocative , interestin image, Gun, it pulls my eyes,
lak
effective work with the texture!
Jay7347
It all fits...and fits well! -jay
Dreamingbee
excellent work - fantastic texture !
tibet2004uk
I love those eyes!! Beautiful, large and dark!! And so full of stories...
MarkusVogt
YES - great texturing and "rusty" colours - like this minimal abstract look !
Cyve
Stunning and fantastic image ... Great idea and good realization !!!
danob
wonderful it hits the heart and the hidden sadness
Synapse
Something very intense about this! He's charmingly cute, yet there's so much ambiguity as to the mood of the piece, dare I say something even unsettling? Whatever, there's a feeling of wisdom somehow, I think. The fading to black toward the edges really helps give this a close-up intimacy :-)
logiloglu
full of secrets. wonderful mood. an impressive collage art,Gun. !!!!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!!!
parb1194
An excellent stone face. A really wonderful image. ;o)
michbehar
Texture with a few details becomes a great art work! Congratz...
cynlee
a moment frozen in time... each a bit of the child left behind...
gallimel
it annhilates me with its power.extraordinary force of expression.
SirIglesDremont
wow, Gun, you rock! Its an extraordinary strong work! stunning!