Artists Of Texas Contemporary Paintings and Art

   "Venetian Textures II" ©2022 Niki Gulley 16" x 12" textured oil on canvas panel  I started this piece during our Plein Air / Photography Art Trek Workshop that my husband, Scott Williams, and I lead in Venice, Italy. We had painted several other grand locations, but decided on day three to paint a more intimate vignette of the canals. Since the whole city is on water, I love how their "garage doors" are actually for their boats! In this painting, I wanted to focus on all of the wonderful architectural textures and age of the homes as seen in the peeling stucco, crumbling bricks and weathered wood. Luckily I had a steady stream of gondolas passing as I was painting so I could add one in to set the mood. To purchase and for more details, go to  nikigulley.com/venetian-textures/. *** To see more of my contemporary textured landscape paintings, please visit  nikigulley.com. For more information on my Venice and other travel paintings, please e-mail  Nik...

 "Venetian Textures II" ©2021 Niki Gulley 16" x 12" textured oil on canvas panel  I started this piece during our Plein Air / Photography Art Trek Workshop that my husband, Scott Williams, and I lead in Venice, Italy. We had painted several other grand locations, but decided on day three to paint a more intimate vignette of the canals. Since the whole city is on water, I love how their "garage doors" are actually for their boats! In this painting, I wanted to focus on all of the wonderful architectural textures and age of the homes as seen in the peeling stucco, crumbling bricks and weathered wood. Luckily I had a steady stream of gondolas passing as I was painting so I could add one in to set the mood. To purchase and for more details, go to  nikigulley.com/venetian-textures/. *** To see more of my contemporary textured landscape paintings, please visit  nikigulley.com. For more information on my Venice and other travel paintings, please e-mail  Niki Gull...

"Venetian Textures" ©2021 Niki Gulley 12" x 9" textured oil on canvas panel I started this piece during our Plein Air / Photography Art Trek Workshop that my husband, Scott Williams, and I lead in Venice, Italy. We had painted several other grand locations, but decided on day three to paint a more intimate vignette of the canals. Since the whole city is on water, I love how their "garage doors" are actually for their boats! In this painting, I wanted to focus on all of the wonderful architectural textures and age of the homes as seen in the peeling stucco, crumbling bricks and weathered wood.  To purchase and for more details, check out  nikigulley.com/venetian-textures-ii/. *** To see more of my contemporary textured landscape paintings, please visit  nikigulley.com. For more information on my Venice and other travel paintings, please e-mail  Niki Gulley.

"Creating Memories," Venice ©2015 Niki Gulley 24" x 36" • textured oil painting Inspired from our first trip to Italy, I fell in love with everything about Venice. The city feels preserved in time with all transportation happening on water versus roads. The architecture, art, history, and people are all fascinating, the food and wine delicious, and it was such a romantic place to visit. So in this painting, I captured a lone gondola to convey that feeling of lazily drifting along with your loved one down this brick canal filled with history and future memories. If you're in the Dallas area this coming weekend and you'd like to see Creating Memories and more of my palette knife paintings in person, please stop by my booth at the Cottonwood Art Festival. Cottonwood Art Festival Sat. May 2 • 10am – 7pm Sun. May 3 • 10am – 5pm Richardson, TX Cottonwood Park at Coit & Beltline CottonwoodArtFestival.com If you have any...

“A Pause in Time” Venice, Italy ©2012 Niki Gulley 18” x 24” pastel This piece was selected to exhibit at the Southwest Pastel Society's Juried Show and  will be on display at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, TX through November 2012. Mysterious, enchanted, dreamlike – Venice is a fairytale at night. Evening has drawn its starry cloak over the city, the crowds and pigeons are gone and three women enjoy the evening at a café in Piazza San Marco. This changeling city, this artist’s muse now is unhurried, relaxed and romantic and this one perfect moment in time is held in artful pastels, satiated colors–rich velvet textures capture ebony/violet chairs that Peggy, Pollock or Cole Porter may have sat in, paintings of angels from old Venice and three modern women of today complete this delicate balance in a point of time. If you’d also like to experience the beauty, history and culture of Venice, join me and my husband / travel photographer, Scott Williams, for our ...