Original oil painting Provence Poppies and Lavender landscape by Karen Tarlton

Original oil painting Poppies and Lavender by Karen Tarlton

So many beautiful places in the world to paint,

and this is a larger version of a favorite past work of mine.

Hope you enjoy!

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Provence Poppies and Lavender

Oil

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Original oil painting Provence Lavender by Karen Tarlton

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Provence Lavender

Oil

This large original is one of my favorite lavender paintings, and I've painted quite a few! There's something special about a sunny day and the fragrant earthy smell of lavender that is hard to forget. Every once in awhile I break out an old photo from a past trip and when I start painting, I can almost smell it again!

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Galleries: City Lights Gallery, Las Vegas, NV

The Arlington Arts Gallery, Arlington Virginia

Galerie Severn, New Orleans Louisiana

The Stonehenge Gallery, Montgomery Alabama, SAC's Gallery, Montgomery Alabama,

A Good Morning by Pamela Blaies

Green Bottle with Lavender
20" x 16"
Oil on Canvas

I had a great morning. With all the shadows and light play in this piece, it was fun to create. Simple design with warm, neutral colors gives a very soothing feel, yet the green bottle and lavender stems add fun, energizing color.

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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.

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

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