New Sunflower Painting by Niki Gulley

"Bathing in Sunshine II" ©2012 Niki Gulley

30" x 48" textured painting on wrap around canvas

Bathing in Sunshine 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 on a beautiful summer day 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 would like to see this sunflower painting and more of my textured landscape paintings, please stop by my booth at the Lincoln Park Art and Music Festival this weekend.

Lincoln Park Art and Music Festival

July 7 and 8 • noon – 8 pm

Chicago, IL

Booth #90 • on Racine between Fullerton and Webster

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A Day in Provence Sunflowers and a Dallas Arboretum Workshop by Texas Artist Nancy Medina

Demo painting for my Dallas Arboretum Class

A Day in Provence Sunflower Bouquet

24X24

Oil on Gallery Wrap Canvas

Nancy Medina Web Site

A Day in Provence Sunflower Bouquet was the morning demo painting for my one-day workshop at the Dallas Arboretum Saturday. I had a very talented group of 13 students. We had the perfect day for painting, with sunshine streaming in the skylights and the Chihuly glass exhibit right outside our doors. The Arboretum was abuzz with excitement and busloads of tourists coming through to see the beautiful glass sculptues, but indoors our hearts and minds were all about painting flowers!

I had a completely full class, but we had more than enough of roses, hydrangeas, and sunflowers to paint, thanks to a productive shopping trip to Central Market *sound of harps* by the instructor the day before class. Plus the arrival of my new studio prized possession - my blue glass vase I ordered from Ebay for a bargain price! *trumpets* Thanks so much to Debra for pointing me in the right direction for that gem and giving me the courage to bid (something I hadn't really tried before!).

Painting Summer Flowers in Oils

Nancy Medina Workshop

August 17, 18, and 19, 2012

Jaycee Park Center for the Arts

Irving, Texas

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Check out my Web site for my new 3-day workshop coming up at the Jaycee Park Center for the Arts in Irving, Texas, Painting Summer Flowers in Oils, August 17, 18 and 19 in North Texas, not far from DFW International Airport. I'm still pinching myself about this one, I posted the class online four days ago and there are only four seats left! Was it me, or was it the promise of a cameo appearance by AnnieBee that is attracting this attention, I wonder? Hmmm - or could it have been the promise of donuts....!

New Sunflower Painting by Niki Gulley

"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

Richardson, TX • 

Cottonwood Park • 

on Beltline Rd. just east of Coit

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Lavender painting by Niki Gulley

“Summertime Bouquets” ©2010 Niki Gulley

20” x 30” acrylic on canvas

My husband and I have an uncanny sense of timing when it comes to the weather. We got married during a hurricane on the coast of Florida, we unknowingly planned our European workshop during the spewing of ash in Iceland, we’ve participated in art shows with 70 mph microbursts that destroyed 50 artist tents, and of course we chose to come home to Dallas after two months on the road during the hottest week of summer. With average temperatures around 103°, it wasn’t quite the home-coming I had in mind.

Making the best of it, I immersed myself in my air-conditioned studio and painted happier places – fantasizing about somewhere cooler, where plants grow profusely rather than wilting and withering in boiling temperatures and a beautiful location completely free of concrete. I remembered the gorgeous, aromatic lavender fields we’d seen in Europe a few years before at this exact time of year and through my painting I was transported back. I hope you experience that same bliss looking at “Summertime Bouquets.”

If you’re in the Chicago area this weekend, you can see “Summertime Bouquets” along with my other recent paintings at my booth #355 at the Gold Coast Art Show. For more information on the show, visit amdurproductions.com/f-goldcoast-public.html.

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Bathed in Sunshine by Niki Gulley

“Bathed in Sunshine” ©2010 Niki Gulley

Acrylic Painting • 20” x 30” or 20” x 60”

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 Bathed in Sunshine radiates with energy and captures the joy you feel on one of the last beautiful days of summer.

You can choose either the left or the right painting to hang alone or display both side by side to form a panorama diptych. Bathed in Sunshine is created with extremely thick paint on gallery wrap canvas with the painting continuing around the edges to create a 3-dimensional, almost sculptural wall art.

To see these paintings, stop by my booth at Westport, CT’s Fine Art Festival this weekend or e-mail me at Niki@NikiGulley.com to ship.

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For details on the art show, visit westportartsfestival.com

Heavenly Aromas

"Heavenly Aromas" ©2009 Niki Gulley
oil painting • 18" x 48"

Pictured is another one of my new textured floral fields. Can you smell the lavender?

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Cafe' Provence by Judy Crowe

Cafe' Provence by Judy Crowe
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I was fortunate to be able to teach a workshop in Provence France last year. It was a great trip. This plein air piece was done in a town called Gordes.
Thanks for viewing my work!