contemporary landscape painting

“Choices Await” new White Rock Lake painting

June 10, 2011

12” x 24” textured oil on wrap around canvas

Every day brings a choice – where should you go? Which path should you take? Life awaits you and this artwork says that you have everything before you: your “Choices Await” you. This masterful V shaped composition pulls you into the painting of still waters, reflected reeds and trees creating a sense of calm and meditation. Bring home this beautiful memory of White Rock Lake and each day it will challenge you to be bold, be decisive.

To see the contemplative “Choices Await” and more of Niki Gulley’s textured palette knife oil paintings in person, please stop by her booth at Wells Street Art Show.

Saturday June 10 from 11 am to 8 pm and

Sunday June 11 from noon to 6 pm.

Chicago, IL • On N. Wells St., between North Ave. & Division

Booth #118 & 120

Visit chicagoevents.com/event.cfm?eid=141 for details.

Or, e-mail Niki Gulley for more information on her contemporary landscape paintings.

“Colorful Transformation” textured birch tree painting by Niki Gulley

May 18, 2011

36″ x 48″ textured oil on canvas

Rather than create an exact replica of the forest, I wanted to focus on brilliant color and simple shapes to see if I could communicate the excitement I feel when surrounded by nature. Using energetic diagonal strokes and thick, textured paint, I hope you get a sense of the motion in the leaves and the power of nature to invigorate your spirit. I just love how this piece captured that essence!

To see more of Niki Gulley’s landscape paintings, please stop by her booth at the Broad Ripple Art Fair in Indianapolis, IN this weekend – indplsartcenter.org/braf/.

E-mail Niki Gulley for more information.

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“Transcending Luminosity” by Niki Gulley at Watters Creek

May 13, 2011

Three 48″ x 30″ canvases to form a 48″ x 90″ triptych

textured oil on wrap around canvas

I decided it would be a fun challenge to create an extremely large painting this winter, and I wanted the final piece to be very uplifting, colorful and full of energy. Opting for warm colors and working with extremely thick oil paint and palette knives, I chose this water scene for its energetic flow and yet calming serenity at the same time, and positioned the water lilies and my paint strokes in a circular pattern to enliven that mood.

Also available in limited edition stretched canvas prints.

See nikigulley.com/?page_id=183&category=6 for details.

I’ll have this contemporary landscape painting in addition to other large scale oil paintings at the Watters Creek Art Festival, watters-creek.com/events/Fine-Arts-Festival-Sun.htm, this weekend in Allen, TX. Please stop by my booth, #60, to see them in person.

May 13 • 4 p.m. – 7 p.m.

May 14 • 10 a.m. – 7 p.m.

May 15 • 10 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Allen, TX • in Watters Creek on Village Green Dr.

970 Garden Park Dr. (at U.S. 75 and Bethany Drive)

E-mail me at Niki@NikiGulley.com for more information.

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Time Passages oil painting of White Rock Lake by Niki Gulley

April 29, 2011

12” x 24” textured oil on wrap around canvas

Near to sunset at White Rock Lake.

Sparkling sunlight peeks through the trees in the late afternoon.

Two paths present themselves to you:

one is broad – straight forward, comfortable, quick, drawing you into the lowly darks;

another path curves and winds, less known, slower, meandering, toward the autumn brightness. Such is life. Which path is yours? It is a delightful dilemma,

a problem you will solve by making this one of a kind original oil painting your own.

This intriguing art of White Rock Lake and many other paintings by Niki Gulley
are available for purchase.

To see “Time Passages” and more of Niki Gulley’s textured palette knife oil paintings in person, please stop by her booth at Cottonwood Art Festival next weekend.

Cottonwood Art Festival

Saturday May 7 from 9 am to 6 pm and Sunday May 8 from 9 am to 6 pm.

Richardson, TX, Cottonwood Park is at the corner of Coit and Beltline.

Visit CottonwoodArtFestival.com for details.

E-mail Niki Gulley for more information on her landscape oil paintings.

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Sunny Side Up II oil painting by Niki Gulley

April 20, 2011

36” 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

This vibrant oil painting and many others will be at Cottonwood Art Festival. Come by and see it in person May 7 and 8! Visit CottonwoodArtFestival.com for details.

E-mail Niki Gulley for more information on bluebonnet paintings.

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New Textured Aspen Paintings at Art in the Square

April 15, 2011

36” x 48” textured oil on wrap around canvas

Shimmering colors of autumn: Aspen trees quiver, their light graceful leaves tremble and quake, silver and gold, silver and gold with each light breeze. There is the quiet energy of change coming and vibrant color charges the woods. Crisp fall mountain air, clean bright skies overhead, a band of slender straight trunks cut bright strokes of white against a dazzling tumble of green, crimson and gold.

You may see this painting and more of my textured oil paintings at my booth this weekend at Art in the Square, Booth #J5, in Southlake, TX. Visit artinthesquare.com/default.aspx for details.

E-mail Niki Gulley for more information on my aspen and birch tree paintings.

New Sunflower oil painting

March 7, 2011

30″ x 48″ oil painting

In Sunny Side Up, I wanted to paint something bright and happy that would always cause you to smile when you looked at it, and sunflowers are the perfect flower to do just that. Purposely choosing bright complimentary colors and using extremely thick oil paint, I feel the painting really leaps off the canvas and creates the feeling of joy I intended.

If you’d like to see this sunflower painting in person, visit my booth at “Artscape” held at the Dallas Arboretum next weekend (March 18-20.) See dallasarboretum.org/artscape/index.htm for more details.

Or, e-mail me at Niki Gulley if you would like more information or to purchase this painting.

To see more of my textured oil paintings, go to NikiGulley.com/?page_id=229.

New Ocean Sunset pastel

February 2, 2011

pastel 11″ x 14″

Still dreaming of a warm sandy beach and playing in the ocean’s waves.

E-mail Niki Gulley for more information on this sunset pastel.

Dreaming of the beach – new pastel

January 31, 2011

pastel • 11″ x 14″

Dreaming of sunny skies, laying on a blanket on the beach with a good book, and the cathartic sound of the ocean lapping against the shore.

E-mail Niki Gulley for more information on this sunset pastel.

“Vertical Prism” aspen tree oil painting

January 28, 2011

SOLD • 30″ x 40″ oil on canvas

Sold to a collector in Madison, WI. These playful aspen trees were created with palette knife and gallons of oil paint to achieve texture, movement and colors that explode off the canvas, all while capturing the childlike wonder of staring into the treetops.