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The Textures in our Lives



The Textures in Our Lives 

In the studio a few weeks ago, I finished a small palette knife painting built with thick, directional strokes of oil paint. The paint rises from the panel. It catches light. It shifts as you move around it.  It is not smooth. It is alive.

Gray background panel with layers and layers of thick white and brown paint creating the neck and head of a horse oil painting
©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2026
Colors of the Sky
Oil on Canvas  SOLD  by Laurie Pace  

Yesterday, driving home beneath clearing storm clouds, I was struck again by contrast. The deep blue sky stretched wide and quiet — almost flat in its purity. But the clouds were sculptural mounds of white tinged with gray, layered and dimensional.

They looked textured. Yet if we touched them, there would be nothing to hold. 

That tension fascinates me.

I love texture. Not just in painting — but in life. The softness of rose petals against the jagged rocks surrounding the garden beds. The grit of sand. The strength of mountain stone. The smooth and the rough living side by side.

God built a world of contrast.

In my studio, very little is flat. Canvas has weave. Brushes leave marks. Palette knives carve movement in every direction. Paint is pushed, lifted, layered, and sculpted.
Children who work here instinctively understand this. They want to build paint. They want to feel it.

Yet so much of our world now lives behind glass screens. We see beauty — but we do not touch it. We scroll past waterfalls and roses and mountain snow without ever feeling the chill or the softness.

We are losing something important.

From the moment you wake — the texture of sheets, the cold tile beneath bare feet, the warmth of water on skin — your entire day is filled with sensory experience.
Texture is richness.
It is movement.
It is contrast.
It is dimension.
It is what I love most in paint.
  Elle     
 

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Laurie is an international artist, her paintings are collected in Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Germany, DuBai, Portugal, Italy, France, Germany, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, Poland, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, St Thomas, Romania, Greece, Croatia, and Ecuador.  

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