Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

In the Palms Day
In the Palms Night

The small one is 15 X 30
The large one is 36 X 36

Good morning! I wanted to share two commission pieces heading to Florida next week. When Jim contacted me about palms trees and swamps, I swallowed hard and said, "Sure, I can do it." I have seen palms trees through out my life, but can easy tell you, never a swamp in person. We googled each and came up with six pictures and the composition settled on was a part of each of those pictures. I couldn't wait to paint as the colors began to settle on the canvas. The larger one was a six day painting with about five layers of paint. What is eerie good about it is as you settle into the painting looking at it, you feel the greeness of the shade and the glow of the area surrounding you. It is surrealistic in a way. When Jim indicated the need for a long narrow painting I immediately envisioned this same area, different angle and at deep dusk; this painting too flowed from the paint brush creating itself as it carved out space and shape on the canvas. They hang in my studio right now curing out waiting to be shipped from Texas to Florida. I am going to miss this little piece of heaven in my studio. When I am stressed right now, I stand or sit back in my chair by the computer and lose myself in this swamp...a peace fills the soul. I am hoping Jim and his wife find this unusual calm when they unwrap their palms and hang them.

Contact me if you have a dream picture out there floating in your head! Let me bring it to life.

Grace to you,
Laurie

"He who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does." James 1:25

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