“Sunny Disposition” ©2013 Niki Gulley
30″ x 48” textured oil painting on wrap around canvas
Festive, sun-filled blossoms dance in the gentle breeze, filling the field with sweet fragrance. This textured oil painting captures a carefree summer morning with sunflowers overflowing the foreground, filling up the field with joy under the sunny skies above.
If you’d like to join us in Provence, France (in June/July 2014) as part of our Plein-Air Painting / Photography Art Treks Workshops, please e-mail
Niki Gulley.
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For more information on my textured sunflower and poppy field oil paintings, e-mail niki@nikigulley or go to
NikiGulley.com to see more of my contemporary landscape paintings.
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“Sunny Moments V” ©2012 Niki Gulley
12″ x 12″ textured oil on canvas
This piece was selected to hang in the Artists of Texas Juried Show at the Dutch Art Gallery in Dallas
I painted these sunflowers with extremely thick paint and palette knife. The resulting canvas is loaded with texture, color and energy! I’ve painted it on 1 and 1/2 inch deep stretcher bars, with the image continuing around the edges so that it can be hung as is frameless for a contemporary look.
This sunflower scene looks great hung alone to brighten up a little spot, or in a grouping with some of my sunflower or floral scenes. Hang them horizontally (like pictured above), vertically, on a diagonal (as seen below) or stacked. Take a look at nikigulley.com/the-art/textured-oils/ to find complimentary companion pieces.
If interested in more information on pricing and purchasing, please e-mail Niki Gulley.
To see more of my textured flower paintings, please visit NikiGulley.com.
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“Sun Drenched III” ©2012 Niki Gulley
36″ x 48″ textured painting on wrap around canvas
Sun Drenched III was inspired by our trip to Provence, France last summer. Our timing was perfect and the sunflowers and lavender were in full bloom. While we came across many fields of lavender, we had to search a little harder for sunflowers. Of course that meant sampling more of the local cuisine and wines for much needed fuel as we looked! (My husband likes to say we have to suffer four our art.)
When we eventually came across these sunflowers, I knew immediately they would make a perfect painting. Their bright, smiling faces as big as dinner plates, the sun dappled path leading you deep into the golden field to the quaint stone farmhouse in the distance, and a beautiful summer day with a few peaceful clouds drifting by made for the ideal subject. The resulting painting is so full of color and texture, and my hope is that when you gaze into it, this piece immediately lifts your spirits and brightens up any spot in your home.
If you’re in Dallas this weekend, please stop by my booth at Richardson’s Cottonwood Art Festival where I will be exhibiting, or you can always drop by my Dallas gallery this summer, American Fine Art,
americanfineart.com/.
Cottonwood Art Festival
May 5 • 10am – 8pm
May 6 • 10am – 6pm
Cottonwood Park •
on Beltline Rd. just east of Coit
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“Spring’s Surprises” series ©2012 Niki Gulley
SOLD • Four 12″ x 12″ textured oil paintings on wrap around canvas
Just sold at my opening at American Fine Art this weekend, I created this series of sunflowers and poppies with palette knife and extremely thick oil paint, so that the resulting images are full of color, texture, energy and movement.
Or, if you’re in the Dallas this weekend, please stop by my booth at Richardson’s Cottonwood Art Festival where I will be exhibiting.
Cottonwood Art Festival
May 5 • 10am – 8pm
May 6 • 10am – 6pm
Cottonwood Park •
on Beltline Rd. just east of Coit
Niki's Blog
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