Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Rites of Spring 20 x 30  Oils on Canvas © 2010 SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.” ― Richard Dawkins I write of color tonight as the world around us is filled with color...both silent color and high bright noisy color. Reading the quote I found that I am in agreement on finding the beauty all throughout the day and night.  The painting above has the high intensity colors contrasting beautifully

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 The Call of the Wild © 2010 24 x 30 inches   Mixed Mediums Acrylic with Oil overlays on Canvas Horse Painting SOLD    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand as well.” ― Jack London This was a unique horse painting and I believe I only did two or three different sizes. One larger painting went to Australia, that was similar.  It begins with prayer always for me not to be in the way of the spirit moving my touch as I paint on that canvas.   I had the canvas flat on the table and a brush in hand... not a knife. I began applying paints and was not worried if they ran or overlapped.  No preconception of what would be where. (You saw this on yesterday's painting I shared, the bottom layers of acrylic paint.)  Usually you will find me turning the canvas on

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Spring Storms 24 x 36  Oils on Canvas SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This gorgeous horse painting was done in 2010, probably in March.  We moved to the lake in April and I did not paint for about four weeks! Strong in color, deep with values, and full of energy! What is unusual, it is painted with a brush and not a palette knife! Fun looking back in time!  “Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart   Storms  The phone starts by giving me a loud warning "siren" and I know in Texas it means storms are moving in. If we are not home, we take the nearest route to get there. Living in the Dallas Ft Worth area, our population is a mixture of people and most of them are not from Texas.  Driving can present a problem in normal weather, and if you throw in a super cell of

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Fleeting Moment SOLD  Oil on Canvas  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I am thinking the year I painted this was 2004 and probably fall. I really enjoyed the journey and the intended message with rose in hand was the thoughts we cannot read. Perhaps if her gaze was part of the painting, you might see wonderment or joy....OR you might see tears and heartbreak.  What ever it was... it is fleeting moments never to be locked in time, but we all manage to lock all these fleeting moments into feelings that linger in our minds and hearts.  “ Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be held onto. Clinging to people and experiences that were never ours in the first place is what causes us to miss out on th

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Being a Princess 11 x 14  Oils on Canvas Figurative Child Portrait - Commissioned Painting SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “ If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. ” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess It is obvious we now live in a fully established 'material' world with everything based on material things and promoting yourself.  There are several generations slipped in here with "all about me"...."give it to me" and "gotta have it".  There is also the "what's in for me" generation. Is it

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 At The Ocean SOLD Oils on Canvas painted in 2011 Golden Pond Studio  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I love any type of water...  rain, rivers, ponds, lakes, the ocean... even sitting by a waterfall.  When we lived at the lake, my studio was about twenty feet across the back of the house overlooking both a 5 acre catfish pond and the main lake was to my left where I watched the sunset every evening. It was heavenly!! The negative part was constant water moccasins and copperheads. You had to be on watch where ever you stepped!  We all know the Bible is rich with powerful symbolism. Especially those snakes.  The one symbol that is important to me personally, is water. It represents faith, salvation, and provision, reminding me of its importance in both our physical and spiritual existence. Comparatively, water is crucial for sust