Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 32 Bolting at Sunrise  Size: 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear.” ― Norman Maclean Strong contrast with the horse bolting forward.  The browns, purples and golds meld together behind the strong white bold strokes.  You cannot deny the power and spirit of this small collectible... You have a purpose in this lifetime.  If you follow the path of your divine purpose, you will live a prosperous life. That does not mean money necessarily, more like contentment and things that bring yo...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Girl and Goat 2  2006  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “From sunrise to sunset, I was in the forest, sometimes far from the house, with my goat who watched me as a mother does a child. All the animals in the forest became my friends, even dangerous and poisonous ones. Thanks to my goat-mother and my Indian nurse, I have always enjoyed the trust of animals--a precious gift. I still love animals infinitely more than human beings.” ― Diego Rivera I cannot ever say I have been up close and personal with a goat.  I have with dogs, cats, horses, cows, donkey...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Reflections 15 x 30  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “It is when you lose sight of yourself, that you lose your way. To keep your truth in sight you must keep yourself in sight and the world to you should be a mirror to reflect to you your image; the world should be a mirror that you reflect upon.” ― C. JoyBell  Do you ever sit and reflect on things in life?  An artist often uses a mirror reflection of a painting to see where the composition may be off or need work. A reflection is more honest to the artist than looking directly at the paintin...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Horse 31 . The Moment  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “With each passing moment I'm becoming part of the past. There is no future for me, just the past steadily accumulating.” ― Haruki Murakami I was grazing Google for a quote on Moments because of the title of the painting. There were so many good ones, but this one struck a chord immediately. With each passing moment we are becoming the past.  What we do each moment today is quickly building the past.  I am not sure about the negative idea of no future because o...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Panel. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Inside a barn is a whole universe, with its own time zone and climate and ecosystem, a shadowy world of swirling dust illuminated in tiger stripes by light shining through the cracks between the boards. Old leather tack, lengths of chain, rope, and baling twine dangled from nails and rafters and draped over stall railings. Generations of pocket knives lay lost in the layers of detritus on the floor.” ― Carolyn Jourdan My grandparents had a farm in St Louis.  I know there must have been a barn but ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Who Me?  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ― Winston S. Churchill Ever notice how our cats and dogs and other pets never seem to worry about what they need in life? They do not worry about shelter, or food or making money at their job... they just live.   We are suppose to be the same way... trusting in God to provide for us.  He gives us exactly what we need, so why do we always want more? New shoes, a new phone or a new television... we are consta...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs.” ― Roman Payne What adventure lie before you this day? What lessons will you learn as you rise from your bed? There are endless possibilities waiting to be discovered. You have the freedom to explore these and learn from them. Unlimited good lies ahead. When I face a new canvas I often have sketches in one of my 200 sketchbooks.   Sometimes I am brave and just walk up to begin a painting with no concept... only the freedom of co...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Two Trees A portion of your soul has been entwined with mine A gentle kind of togetherness, while separately we stand. As two trees deeply rooted in separate plots of ground, While their topmost branches come together, Forming a miracle of lace against the heavens.”  ― Janet Mills This beautiful tree was first layer on a painting that evolved into another painting....  My hands want to paint other things but then when I stand back... I see new things and it changes.  Color p...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?” ― Nicholas Sparks Always together and forever apart...wow. It covers a lot in those five words. Day and night, man and wife, artist and canvas, parents and child.... God and man.    ...