Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Summer Horse 100 from 2012  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   We were settled in for the night of Sunday movies, showered and ready for bed.  The wind was up outside but it was not until I saw out the window our 10 x 10 ft tent FLY across the backyard, that I realized something was not right. We both reacted quickly and hit the back door with slippers forgoing our boots.  The tent had been staked firmly into the ground and been up for the past week sheltering our young peach tree from the summer burn of a week of 105 plus temps (heat index well over 110).   The tent was upside down and push into the branches of a large red oak mid yard.  The tent would have been in Waco by now if it had not been for the tree.  It took both of us wrestling the metal stand to hold it still while Terry unhoo...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 Transcending  36 x 36 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”  Stephanie Meyer, Twilight On the stories this canvas would have to tell if it could talk.  It has traveled several places in the US to a gallery and home.  It was a strong painting and really only wanted a home, but it was one of my Black and White series.  I always believe experience and starting over is what strengthens us and I feel the spirit carries into the canvas I work on.  I first tried adding color to the original piec...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Snowflakes Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know."  Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall What are those simple things you enjoy in life, and when was the last time you did them?  I LOVE catching snowflakes on my tongue.  What is your list of things you enjoy?  Here are some of mine. Watching the sunrise. Holding my husband's hand as I fall...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Herd of Color Sold  Size 24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one." John Lennon This pulled pony reminds me of a dream... with soft rainy colors and not much yellow or gold.  It lulls me when I look at it, lulls me into a dreamlike state. I am not clear that the world will ever live as one. We are all too individual.  Our beliefs will not ever line up because we all believe in different things.  My God may not be your 'god'. ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Strength of Day Size: 16 x 20  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom" Aristotle  What is your strength? Where does it come from?  Is it from experience, wisdom, or heart?  Or is it from God?  "And they were calling to one another:"Holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty; the whole earth is full of his glory." Isaiah 6:3    #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Laurie Pace A Texas Artist          My We...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Making Headway  Sold  Size: 16 x 20  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "What's meant to be will always find a way." Trish Yearwood Every time I think of the floods from Houston and Harvey, I remember the stories of not just the people, but those of the animals, horses, dogs, livestock... One call out on FB was from a frantic horse person that discovered a large group of horses stranded by water.  A fence would have to be cut, horses had to be lead out of the area through deep water and then there needed to be horse trailers for them and a rescue p...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 His Way in Progress  48 x 48 inches Oil ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child - our own two eyes. All is a miracle." Thich Nhat Hanh, The Miracle of Mindfulness When I start painting I am totally into color, movement and raw emotion. The music is playing loud.  I am liter...

FLORIDA SUNRISE 18 X 27  SOLD  © LAURIE PACE 2014 CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT HORSE PAINTING    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Florida Sunrise 18 x 27 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.” ― William Blake Summer thoughts sent me back to a memory when I saw this painting in my archives.  My cousin Dawn was visiting from Florida with her granddaughter.  One morning before they were to fly home I took the little girl into my studio. I think she was about six ... and I painted this painting. Part of the joy ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 38 x 58 Oil on Canvas in Progress. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.” ― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Just sat on the floor in the entry hall today with Terry sharing about the finding joy again.  We will be spending more time over the next few weeks watching our life and tweaking things each day.  Not sure who we are right now. It is a puzzle. There seems to be constant distractions that keep us from laughing and playing coy with each other and really getting in deep again to where we were about 10 years ag...