Paris Cafés

“Café de Flore” ©2009 Niki Gulley
8″ x 10″ oil painting

This café scene was inspired from our spring trip to Paris. The corner café is such a quintessential ingredient in Parisian life, that it was one of the first subjects I just had to paint from our journey. I love how you can sit for several hours in the afternoon sipping your coffee, people watching and decompressing without anyone rushing you. In this painting, I wanted to capture this brief moment in time on a typical day in Paris.

If you’d like to see this painting or more Paris scenes from our trip, we will be unveiling our new work from Asia and Europe at our collectors party, East Meets West, on Oct. 16th. And, continuing on Oct. 17th and 18th as part of the White Rock Artists’ Studio tour in Dallas. Please stop by and we will provide maps for the 40 other artists on the tour this year.