“Fire and Gold” ©2012 Niki Gulley
oil on canvas • 36″ x 48″
I love the first signs of fall – the crisp feel in the air, the crunching of leaves underfoot, the beautiful autumn colors, and being totally immersed in nature in the middle of a forest without a care in the world. In Fire and Gold I wanted to recreate that joyful feeling, choosing warm reds and yellows of autumn and using energetic strokes with my paint to heighten that mood. Building up first thin transparent layers and then thick textured layers of oil paint also add to a certain glow and magic in the final piece.
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“Passage of Illumination” ©2011 Niki Gulley
SOLD • 48” x 60” textured oil on canvas
Just Sold! Wander down this path that beckons you and lift your eyes heavenward to that cobalt vault lined by a rainbow of vivid greens and golds and gleaming crimson, purposely choosing these warm vibrant colors to suggest a hopeful future. Like an ancient chorus these joyful trees sing with dazzling colors, a call and respond to each other across the enticing path that traces verses of light and dark, hue and color, an alluring siren song leading you into the depths of this radiant, vanishing horizon. A painting rich in color and light, joy and energy its double bowed composition gently leads gently you into this magical, blissful destination.
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“Kaleidoscope of Dreams” ©2012 by Niki Gulley
textured oil painting
Four 36″ x 36″ canvases to form a 72″ x 72″ quadriptych
In this painting, I wanted you to feel like a little kid again – laying on the ground and staring up into the treetops without a care in the world. I hope you experience the joy of being surrounded by nature and the beauty in this autumn kaleidoscope of colors.
If you are in Madison, WI this weekend, please stop by my booth at Art Fair on the Square to see more of my textured birch and aspen tree paintings.
Sun. July 15 • 10am – 5pm
Madison, WI • 227 State. St.
on Mifflin St. between State St. and Wisconsin Ave.
To see more of my contemporary landscape paintings, visit
NikiGulley.com.
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SOLD • 20″ x 30″ pastel by Niki Gulley
Just completed – a commissioned pastel of the Chicago skyline, seen from the city cruise on Lake Michigan as the sun is setting and causing the water to sparkle.
If you’re interested in commissioning a painting of a special location or memory, please e-mail me at
Niki Gulley for more information on my contemporary landscape paintings.
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