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 (36)
DarkStormCrow
Excellent work and image, well done...
lyron
Fantastic work!!!
ledwolorz
Beautiful artwork.,
koosievantutte
very, very beautiful, gun
MrsLubner
So beautifully done. The outer edges are very good and I love the lighting applied.
helanker
WOW ! Such a beautiful Image, Gun. She looks like she had a deep long sleep in more that a FEW HOURS ;-) Lovely colord and I like the surroundings very much too.
groegnitram
another wow, this play with light and colours looks so beautiful, so far away and quite like a dream, gun :)
RodolfoCiminelli
Great imagination and creativity....!!! Excellent done....!!!!
felinx
Beau travail !
Faemike55
Very nice! wonderful dreamstate
huismus
BEAUTIFUL!!
timtripp
exquisite imagery!
Arquitekto
Fantastic work
ARTWITHIN
Really gorgeous, Gun. I feel like I am there. Both dreamy and melancholy to me.
romanceworks
Oh, this is a lovely image. CC
magichild2
Wow this is fantastic work...love it.
schonee
Oh this is wonderful I Love it!
Pewter7
This is really excellent work, Gun! I love the coloring and mood set in this image by the texturing. The overall image has a gothic feel to it. Really top-notch, reminiscent of NekhbetSun's artwork. 10+
ElizaB
wonderful creativity
mysnapz
I like the mood of this image Gun, a great feeling of calm in sinister surroundings.
Marinette
Excellent work and image.
hipps13
beautiful work warm hug, Linda
odie
Wow. Fabulous mood. The mist in the cavern is glowing with possibilities. I love it.
marcopolinski
totally awesome 5+++
NekhbetSun
I love this !!!!! fave n hugs ~
caviedes
Love this one, well done!!!!
three_grrr
The last dream I had, I felt like this when leaving it. I didn't want it to end, and sadly I left to come back to the real world. I stayed in a mood for some days afterward. Her dream must have been magical, she seems reluctant to leave the brightness of it, coming back into the dull reality of wakefulness.
verod
Nice work!
rudiruth
wonderful colors and textures.
cvrad
lovely mood piece lloks like an old water color painting!