Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Quiet Place    Contemporary Horse Painting by Laurie Pace   Oil on Birch 8 x 8 x 2 inches Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it. - Amir"  Khaled Hossieni This is the week of Christmas. I told Terry (my hubby) that I wanted to savor each and every day of this time. With the stress of this year, we are keeping our focus on the beauty of each day as we approach Christmas.  Finding "Quiet" is often hard in today's world.   For me, quiet can be found: walking through a park filled with tall trees turning the colors of fall. on the ocean slicing through the waves in a sail boat.  sitting in front of a warm fire watching the snow outside. tucked...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Touching You  by Laurie Pace  SPECIAL PRICING at $199 $199 for 199 paintings for 2021. Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Friday night has arrived and along with it a strong wind of cold air. We had the granddaughters here today and watched the Christmas Chronicles 2.  We enjoyed the time together with them. Makes us almost feel normal again.  Are you getting out or seeing your family at all?  Never thought life after sixty would EVER be like this!  The eldest is almost 12.  I was sharing with her how in love I was with Kurt Russell when he was 12 and starring in a western entitled " The Travels of Jamie McPheeters ".  Then explained how he and Goldie Hawn had been a couple forever but never married.  We looked at Goldie's photos over the years as well. The 'olden days'....

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Grazing 2   18 x 27 inches of thick buttery oil paint by Laurie Pace   on SALE! 50% off this painting! Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. JUST for you... this newly painted piece is on sale, hoping to make a Christmas Wish come true! Click on the painting or the Title of the painting. I did the first portions of this live on Instagram.  It is almost ready to ship out with a pre-glaze on it.   It is already late on Thursday night and I am not sure where the day went. Our two granddaughters came to spend the day.  It was full of school work first, and then time in the backyard in the sun helping their Bampa rake leaves from our nine trees out back!  I am trying to figure out how to shop for Christmas.  Still need to buy gifts for two of the grandsons... we are not doing gifts for the adults ...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 In the Word - Praying Cowboy  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This was a painting from the past created from photos from Debbie Grayson Lincoln. She gave me permission to use it for a painting.   We lived at Lake Cypress Springs at the time. It was donated to help raise medical funds for a man in the area.   Did you notice how behind every painting there is a story or something inspiring it? Isn't our life like this?  We are a compilation of stories.  It took me too many years through those early "stories" to realize the more I tried to control things, the further my life spun out of control.  Something about the sixties, you begin to realize you are in the last chapter of life, especially at 68. Your thoughts run differently and you respond to th...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Starlight Run 30 x 40 Contemporary Horse Painting by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,  Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels. ” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Do you remember " Starlight Star bright, first star I see tonight... " As an adult with a passion for horses, I always dreamed of a stallion running across the field in the starlight.  As far as " I wish I may, I wish I might have my dream come true tonight... " I would love to be bareback on that beautiful horse racing against the wind under Texas stars!   I would love to know what you dream about. When I paint something from music or something my dreams has inspired, I always bring to the canvas. Color is always primary. This is the beginning look to my directio...

New Pastures © 2012 Laurie Pace    © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 New Pastures  Contemporary Abstract Longhorn Commission by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “There are none happy in the world but beings who enjoy freely a vast horizon"—said Damodara, when his herds required new and larger pastures..” Henry David Thoreau, Walden It is that time of the year?   In my brain from a young age I always 'saw' the calendar in my head in an L shape like the old wall calendars.  January through September coming down the sides of the flip open and across the bottom Sept through Dec.  I feel we are at the end of the L shape and making that jump Dec 31 back to January at the top of the new next year.  2020 has been a challenge for everyone in the world. I have had maybe less than 5 or 6 b...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Summer Herd   Commission Contemporary Horse Paintings by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans .” Allen Saunders Life After Sixty:  I love this pony herd painted in the piece above... but it brought to mind the idea of herd mentality.  We all get caught up in it and often we are moving away from where we should be or what we should be doing. Herd mentality is basically following the herd... and truly that is not following the path God intends for you .  God wants each of us to find contentment . That is NOT following along what other people are saying or doing. God wants us to use our individual gifts to serve him.   That is NOT following along with a herd. The word individual has no space in a herd...