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)
cbender
this is beautiful, dear gun - i really like it... seems to be fragile in some way... touches me... and i cross fingers for your "connection to the digital world"... :)
briarwitch
Gah, I know the feeling. Then if ya have the problem again, you don't know how ya fixed it the first time! Very nice image...with my fibromyalgia in the winter, I feel like this image looks alot of the time. In fact, the actual catch term for it is fibro-fog. G ~lost
kansas
A marvelous and descriptive image. I hope you get your computer problem solved.
Jay7347
ah Gun...what a beautiful image! As for the computer, please forgive me and my bias...I think pc's are evil. Ok, don't flame me everyone, just a personal opinion. Hang in there! -jay
lak
excellent mood picture...very well done i think with her face almost un-recognizable!
Kropot
Oh please, call the repairtroops, we need youre works round here. Beautifull piece Gun.
bevchiron
Those eyes are so haunting & fearful Gun & the impression of being totally lost in a fog of the unknown is very powerful, it's a great image but I do hope your problem is solved & you don't have to feel like that for long.
i-popba
Excellent creation...!! just wonderful....love it..!
tibet2004uk
Oh yes!! I love this one! She looks like an alien of some sort!! And those rays of light are awesome!! A very surreal image, very "sci_fi" to me!
Dindin
A touching image ,the skintones, the posture ,the mist all make it into a beautiful work of art
Synapse
Hope things get sorted quick for you Gun... I've always had a suspicion about Boost software, as if it has to compromise something else in order for it to work, but maybe that's just my ignorance ;-) As for the work, I love your stylisation here, it's still so obviously human and yet there's a touch of something slightly extraterrestrial that twists it slightly. Very nice treatment and as always it reflects your emotional state!
visionart
"This Is So Unique...I Love This Style Gun As It Flows With Emotion.Im Going To Say That What You Created Here Is Masterful Art"
logiloglu
a wonderful and deep touching artwork.magical light and atmosphere. i keep my fingers crossed,Gun. #:O)
addiek
Amazing how we can be made so much at the mercy of technology... like your morphed humanoid... phew! Hang in there Gun...
SirIglesDremont
oh, Gun, art is always also the skill to enhance a personal feeling to human being universal inner. this one speaks to the heart, Gun. fantastic. BIG VOTE
SirIglesDremont
oh, Gun, art is always also the skill to enhance a personal feeling to human being universal inner. this one speaks to the heart, Gun. fantastic. BIG VOTE
cynlee
what a terrible feeling! well perceived here... ahhhhhhhhhhh... good luck to you!! :]
KingPtolemy
Wonderful composition!!! Beautifully done!!!
SirJohn
Now THIS is fantastic! Easily one of the coolest images I have seen in awhile. You totally rock gunsan, I LOVE it.
gallimel
splendid. really splendid.