“Harmonic Refrain” – 48″ x 60″ textured acrylic painting on canvas ____________________________________________________________________
Welcome to my online gallery!
I am a full-time professional artist, and I consider myself a contemporary impressionist, specializing in heavily textured landscape paintings. Although that is too simplified. Really what I paint for you is joy, hope and serenity!
Currently, I am playing with multiple layers and extremely thick paint, creating three-dimensional canvases that flow with light, energy and color. My goal is to lift people’s spirits and instill a sense of hope and serenity by bringing the cathartic feelings of being out in nature into your home.
May you escape into a quiet walk in the woods or be transported to an uplifting field bursting with wildflowers. Enjoy laying on the ground without a care in the world, staring up into the treetops and dreaming about what’s to come. Or, just revisit memories of some of the favorite places you’ve been.
Focusing on showing the landscape in a modern, unique way, my highly textured paintings are a twist on reality with nature somewhat abstracted, leaving interpretation up to your imagination. Layers and layers of paint cause my paintings to dance with light and dimension, while surprising impressionistic color pops allow you to see something different every time you look at my paintings. Bold expressionistic strokes convey the emotions and energy of being surrounded by nature’s majesty.
Besides these larger sculptural paintings, I also have a gallery on my website displaying my smaller pieces that I create on site from our travels throughout Europe and most recently from Italy and France. Full of spontaneity and emotion, I feel like these location paintings really bring the memories of traveling to life.
Interviews:
If you’d like to learn more about me and my background, please listen to this interview with NBC News in DFW as featured artist at Art in the Square:
Or, if you’d like to know the story behind my joy-filled textured paintings –
From growing up with a blind father to discovering the power of art and nature to heal as a result from recovering from several autoimmune diseases,
Click here for my interview with “Bold Journey” magazine – https://boldjourney.com/news/meet-niki-gulley/.
