Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in Progress 5 x 6 ft  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The desire to go home that is a desire to be whole, to know where you are, to be the point of intersection of all lines drawn through all stars, to be the constellation-maker and the center of the world, that center called love. To awaken from sleep, to rest from awakening, to tame the animal, to let the soul go wild, to shelter in darkness and blaze with light, to cease to speak and be perfectly understood." Rebecca Solnit, Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics Just a 'funny face' from the painting... love/hate f

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Wolf Painting in progress  Oil on Canvas. 5 x 6 ft ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Like a wild animal, the truth is too powerful to remain caged." Veronica Roth, Insurgent This painting was a work of the heart which covered three weeks of my life in paint and progress and now another three as it is curing to ship out. It is a 'mother' feeling when I invest so much blood, sweat and tears... and then have to say goodbye to a piece of my spirit spilled across the canvas.  My spirit uncaged. When I feel like maybe I should not paint anymore, I became aware that I would be not using the great gift God has given me.  In a wa

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 32 x 48 Sold  Boys on the Beach - Commissioned Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself." Josh Billings Freedom in running... all of our dogs have been runners. They LOVE to run. Annie always came home after her jaunts. Some of them were in neighbors pastures and she came home covered in horse dung. Paddy, not so much. When he runs... he runs looking for prey. We are scrambling to catch him.  We are thankful he is aging and at least we THOUGHT we could catch him if he tries to dart out the front door. BUT we have found, we have aged too.  Galatians 5:22-23

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever . . . connections are made with the heart, not the tongue." C. JoyBell C. Oh my, this time of the year is hard not to think of cool water and the lake, being lazy on the boat, or sitting out on the swing watching the sunset. Think it is time for a weekend out on Golden Pond.  Psalm 15:1-2  "Lord, who may abide in Your ta

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When a stone is dropped into a pond, the water continues quivering even after the stone has sunk to the bottom." Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha Every word spoken, every action we take... causes ripples in the lives of those around us. Those ripples may continue long after we are gone.  John 4:14   But whoever drinks of the water that I will give him will never be thirsty again. The water that I will give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal life."  #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Art

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "But I'm worse. I'm a child playing dress-up, who can't even recognize herself under her own costume."  Stephanie Perkins  Lola and the Boy Next Door. Having Granddaughters is a blessing. They wear your shoes and old dresses you keep for them. They love parading around the house clopping around in my high heels (Well, I don't wear them any more.) and we have the dresses sached up to stay on them and keep them from tripping when they walk.  Wonder if God does that for us too when we pretend to be something we are not?  1 Samuel 16:7  But the Lord said to Samuel, "

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way 48 x 48 Oil sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Beannacht/ Blessing On the day when the weight deadens on your shoulders and you stumble,  May the clay dance to balance you. And when your eyes freeze behind the grey window and the ghost of loss gets into you, May a flock of colours, indigo, red, green, and azure blue come to awaken in you a meadow of delight. When the canvas frays in the currach of thought and a stain of ocean blackens beneath you,  May there come across the waters a path of yellow moonlight to bring you safely home. May the nourishment of the earth be yours, may the clarity of light be yours,  May the flu

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His way Progress Painting 48 x 48 oil  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The waves broke and spread their waters swiftly over the shore. One after another they massed themselves and fell; the spray tossed itself back with the energy of their fall. The waves were steeped deep-blue save for a pattern of diamond-pointed light on their backs which rippled as the backs of great horses ripple with muscles as they move. The waves fell; withdrew and fell again, like the thud of a great beast stamping." Virginia Woolf, The Waves This piece seems to grow out of this quote. Look at the waves in the horses where they are crossing... the c

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way  Progressive shots of Painting 48 x 48 oil on canvas ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm having a psychic moment. It involves you and me." Distracted, Gansey glanced up from the computer screen."Were you talking to me or Ronan?" "Either. I'm flexible." Blue made a small, terrible noise. "I would appreciate if you'd turn your inner eye towards the water."  Not sure why I liked this quote, but think it is the mention of the inner eye.  Our outer eyes open and close to the physical world, but our inner eye is perhaps our soul.  As a believer, the Holy Spirit lives within that in