Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018  The Paint   Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Keep your mind open .... it is the only way new things can get in."  Colleen Hoover, Slammed. What does this mean?  Keeping an open mind is one of the hardest things to do. We always seen to have an opinion on something and we want to be heard. If you are as strong willed as I am, often I do not hear what the other person is saying because I am preplanning how I am going to phrase what I want to say to them, making it impossible for me to hear anything from anyone else.   Keeping an open mind involves allowing yourself to embrace new and different things. The

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Rose Rumble  Size: 12 x 12 Oil on Canvas. Contemporary Rose Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been”  Rainer Maria Rilke Okay, it is the new year. Helloooo 2018.   What are things that have never been for you?  I am sitting here thinking this one over.   1.   ........... Humm, I am not coming up with much.  I have found in my life, all my experiences are unique and all of them required my growth or stretching to complete them.  I guess I have trusted in the Lord so much, I feel he has brought into my life so many AMAZING things.  Each of them timed in his way, an

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Photography  Pexels.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We always go to bed early... so I am up early... at six a.m. to greet 2018.  The Christmas LIghts in the front yard are left on around the clock over the holidays. I secretly LOVE getting up to them outside the glass front door.  The beauty of the colors again the night shining so pretty make my day as I realize the beauty lies ahead in this day as well.  It does not have to be new years to feel like you get to begin again... it is simply this moment.  Knowing God's unfailing love sustains me, I stand with my heart and arms open for this day and the year ahead.   Isaiah 54:1

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Abstract Horse Painting: Strength of Day  Sold    Size: 16 x 20  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterda

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Blooms Size: 16 x 20  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice." T S Eliot Four Quartets Yes and this painting was painted four years ago... and I am still missing some of the joy in painting like this, but slowly figuring out the disconnect.  It sneaked in through the back door with a voice constantly finding fault.  When you allow this to happen, you begin to self doubt yourself as you allow them to slowly undermine the person you have become.  Last year's language is to be left in last year and I am ready to

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Contemporary Horse Painting: Beneath the Branches Size: 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier...'" Alfred Tennyson The new year lies ahead... filled with opportunity.  What we forget is today lies ahead of us also filled with opportunity. We do not have to wait until tomorrow or this next Monday.  Today is the day that counts.  Do not put off till tomorrow what you can do today. God is there with you always.  In my reading in the Bible this year I found my key word or words for the new year.  I thought it was going to

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Christmas Day ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The light - the hope, the joy, the peace, the love - is among us now." Sarah Bessey  Sarahbessey.com    "An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the Angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all the people.  Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is the messiah, the Lord." Luke 2: 9-11 #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist          My Website         

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Peace Advent 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- " I believe that peace-making is more in step with Jesus than peace-keeping. I believe the voices crying in the wilderness, prophesying with their lives about the Kingdom of God. ...  I believe that peace begins with forgiveness and conversation and reconciliation, oh, I believe in miracles, I'm so ridiculous. I believe that small acts of peace are still acts of peace." Sarah Bessey  SarahBessey.com Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me...and you. Christmas Eve is upon us.  "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the worl

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Which Direction?  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; That if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."  Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or, Life in the Woods I truly believe God has a purpose for each of our lives.  In serving others we begin to fulfill that purpose. Stepping out of our comfort zones pushes us to new heights and challenges along the way.  My Father and Mother always taught us to believe in the gifts we have be