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 (17)
kimariehere
ohhh JUST look at his face! ..WOW! so much personality on that rock!!..i'll put my sad kitty with him to keep him company!!... fantstic work!!...!
cbender
i like that a lot, dear gun - looks good - a great abstract and i also love that font... cool work!
vlaaitje
wow how longer I look at it, how more I see in there...great work Gun
addiek
I'm thinking that it might make a great wallpaper /background / desktop for my computer here in the kryptorium. The rocky writing looks excellent... your renders never cease to amaze me! hugs.
tibet2004uk
I love the font and the rusty texture of this but, to be honest, I have no idea what this is!! Been looking at it on every possible angle and I still don't see what this shape in the middle is!! :(
gunsan
Don't you see the sad man's face? Of course it is clear to me bcause I made it, so I have hard to understand you don't see it :-( Take a few steps back and try. Apparently only kimariehere sees it
Sylvaine
Have my Cat on my knees...fortunately...and he seems very affectuous again...:-)
Jay7347
When you force the mind to see things from the abstract it seems to call from recognized input. It looks to within. The response is almost like a mirror...very cool! -jay
monoceroo
I love this composition with its unique lighting and textures. Excellent artwork and really very interesting features of the depicted characters.
bevchiron
It's strange reading comments about the face, that's the first thing that hit me when I saw this, the mournful expression trapped in stone, it creates such an intense feeling that that really moves me!
gallimel
it amazes me the force and expressivity of this one... :)
Synapse
Ah cool, nice to see this one in more detail (as the Forum's file size limit makes us use too much compression which reduces the quality, hey?) Now I look I can see the face, though I have to admit this morning I did wonder what it was! At that time all I could see was an abstract torso and right thigh, with the left leg bent and forshortened - at least that's what I thought it looked like! Now I see the face and I can't fail to see it. Beautiful textures again and the font is appropriate :-)
cynlee
are we connected by some universal emotional state? feeling a bit like that myself lately :]
Cyve
Stunning picture ... very very cool ... Great work as always !!!
visionart
I See So Much Sadness And Emotion Of The Face That Has Been Casted Into Stone.I Am Touched By This Vision!kansas
Very expressive of what you say is a 'morbid morning meditation'. Hard for me to relate to that kind of feeling, as mornings are always wonderful because it is a new day filled with new things.
SirJohn
Oh, I really love this figure! Such a tragic character... like a much more realistic Charlie Brown... complete with his own addictions and psychological schizms. Fantastic!