"Spring Blooms," Dallas Arboretum oil painting by Niki Gulley

"Spring Blooms II," Dallas Arboretum ©2012 by Niki Gulley
9" x 12" oil painting

A beautiful spring day at the Arboretum during Dallas Blooms last year.

Please join me on  Feb. 4th at the Dallas Arboretum where I'll be teaching a Painting Workshop covering tips and guidance for creating gorgeous landscape paintings.

For more information, go to dallasarboretum.org/AdultEducation/CreativeArts.htm. 

If you'd have any questions, please e-mail me at Niki Gulley.

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Or, to see more of my contemporary landscape paintings, visit NikiGulley.com.

"Sunny Side Up" textured sunflower painting by Niki Gulley

“Sunny Side Up III” ©2011 Niki Gulley

30” x 48” textured oil on wrap around canvas

Huge sunflowers fill the fields, bright, sunny and cheerful. Warm golden petals glow above purple shadows and shimmer before violet hills, just as the sun begins to set filling the sky with radiant red and gold. Bold strokes capture these sunflowers in thick impasto colors that vibrate across the canvas

To see more of my contemporary landscape paintings, please stop by my booth at the Lincoln Park Arts & Music Festival in Chicago this weekend. Visit chicagoevents.com/event.cfm?eid=189 for details.

E-mail Niki Gulley for more information.

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"Bursting with Color" diptych painting by Niki Gulley

“Bursting with Color” ©2011 Niki Gulley

Two 24” x 24” textured oil paintings on canvas to form a 24” x 48” diptych

I love it when we are driving leisurely through the countryside and we come across a gorgeous field of wildflowers. The sudden burst of color thrills your senses! Playing with color and texture, I feel like this poppy painting radiates with energy and captures the joy you feel on one of the first beautiful days of spring.

With this series, you can purchase either the left or the right painting to hang alone or display both side by side to form a panorama diptych.

E-mail Niki Gulley for more information on her textured floral paintings.

Or, to see more of her work, stop by her booth at Art Fair on the Square in Madison, WI this weekend, (July 9 & 10). mmoca.org

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Book cover for "The Art of Virtue" by Niki Gulley

16" x 20" pastel by Niki Gulley • SOLD

I was commissioned to create this unusual floral painting for The Art of Virtue, a book that was just published on the writings of Benjamin Franklin by Charles T. Warren. The publisher wanted a painting that could be used in its entirety for the cover art and then also as eight individual paintings that could be broken up to be the artwork for each of its chapters. Also, with Franklin's interest in and influential development of horticulture in Philadelphia, florals seemed like a perfect fit.


At top is the original painting, along with the cover of the book and some interior pages above and below. For more information on commissions, e-mail me at Niki@NikiGulley.com.

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