Whispers of the Unseen: The Art of Gunny Brorby
by Viviana Puello.
What if the world you see is only a fraction of what exists?
A brushstroke is never just a brushstroke in Gunny Brorby’s world. It is a whisper, an echo, a trace of something unseen yet profoundly felt. Standing before Brorby’s work, one does not merely observe but rather steps into an unfolding dialogue between the known and the unknown—between what is visible and what shimmers just beyond perception.
The canvas is alive, breathing in soft pastels and ethereal layers, where figures emerge not as bold declarations but as fleeting apparitions, spectral yet undeniable. Faces blend into atmosphere, creatures dissolve into the mist, and nature—wild, knowing, uncontainable—extends an invitation to those willing to look beyond form and into meaning. These are not just paintings; they are passages to something deeper.
Hope lingers in the textures, not in the way of grand gestures, but in the quiet insistence of possibility. A face half-formed, yet fully expressive. A bird frozen mid-flight, its path uncertain. A gate standing open, leading somewhere unknown. Brorby paints like an explorer of the soul, mapping out the liminal spaces between fear and faith, despair and transcendence. The elements of her work don’t beg for attention; they haunt you, slipping into memory like a half-remembered dream.
The Queen of Nature stands not as a ruler but as a guide—a presence woven into the fabric of the universe, crowned not with jewels but with the energy of creation itself. Kiss of Life pulses with the kind of tenderness that exists in the fragile space between existence and surrender. And then there is Hope, not just as an abstract concept, but as a visceral experience, stretching out like the first light after a long storm.
Brorby does not dictate; she reveals. She does not define; she suggests. The magic in her work is that it never offers a final answer—only an opening, a possibility, a glimpse into a world where everything, no matter how lost or hidden, still holds the potential to be found.
And that is precisely where the masterpiece lives—not in what is painted, but in what is awakened within us when we stand before it.

Viviana Puello
Editor-in-Chief