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 (24)
cynlee
wow... this one really grabs me with the surrealness of it! yes, find myself whispering to the figure to step out of the gray & into the light & feel the warmth & sand beneath your feet! :]
vlaaitje
O my Gun.....this is such a outstanding artwork.....always a joy to look at your work....a prissinor in your self......that can be very hard too...if you know what I mean..I am just back, I email you later .....hugs xxx
cbender
hey - i may join here... awesome picture! i really like the surrealism in here... ! strong impact... and i like your words too - quite intriguing concept... hugs
SirIglesDremont
oh gun, youre great! i love that! v
parb1194
So close and yet so far... Paradise and you can't go swimming. Excellent!!!!! ;o)
Liynaa
So true, and so beautifully done
logiloglu
an impressive visualisation of this metapher.an emotional touching art. !!!!!!!!! #:O) !!!!!!!!
SoulEatar
Absolute surreal - original and so true - reminds me of groush II whom I miss seeing here alot - Both of you are one of a kind and very real !
pookah69
This is a striking and evocative image. Love the postcard's flatness and the cutout of the windows. It would be stronger, I think, if you embedded the card slightly in the sand, so that the two components of this image, the postcard and the beach, were more "integrated." Overall, a wonderfully creative image.
kansas
This is marvelous and very expressive. Very sad when people do this to themselves.
Sylvaine
To take a step out...and reach the sky...stand up :-) creature is surreal...not the rest.
lak
reminds me of the Black Tower series of books...very cool work!
artgum
This one hits home. I can't say anything more about the image than has already been said. The message is so very true. The strongest prison is in our own minds. Well done.
briarwitch
This is what depression feels like. You don't see the world right...its filtered. ~lost
tibet2004uk
Oh!! Very impressive image!! I just love that awesome-luminous-vibrant background!! The dark image of the jail is so shocking on such a background, which is the point here I guess!! Quite fascinating and definitely thought provoking work Gun!
visionart
Im So Impressed On Your Style Of Art Here. The Words Written Are To The Point And Your Art... Total Brilliance!!
chrysalide
the mix between the photography and your creation is very good. i like the atmosphere of your realization. it's a very good work. have a good day
i-popba
Excellent creation..!! cool concept and composition..well done Gun.!
Cyve
WOW ... Fantastic concept ... Juts FANTASTIC !!!!
rhainne
very creative, beautiful work :o)
Synapse
My dear Gun, you've captured this PERFECTLY... the whole world is our oyster, yet we shut ourselves away out of fears we can't always explain or even find. Thanks for reminding each of us that it's not something that only we ourselves do.
monoceroo
...wonderful juxtaposition between the prison of the mind and freedom. Creative and excellent artwork. V
addiek
Self deception is thinking you are free whilst fighting for the rights to freedom. That is an obsession with false freedom... we are often more free when we give up on trying to do everything ourselves and ask for help from above.
vbarreto
Excellent symbolism!!