Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Seven Hearts . Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is an inside job.  Never saw it coming.  Cannot predict the happening. Close your eyes and breathe. Yep, your heart works an inside job.  24/7 it is pumping away providing your body with continual service. We all have a heart, but we all may not have heart. It is not just about eating right and exercising to have a healthy heart, but is about living and loving and giving to have a healthy heart.  It bring to you inside and out 24/7 harmony and peace.  When you are agitated,...

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2014 Family Heart 12 x 12 inches Mixed Media on Canvas. SOLD  This was a commissioned piece for early January that I have been working on.  It had a few progression shots, but I am trying to keep life a bit more simple and share things that I finish as I do them. This collage mixed media piece is filled with things that are important to this family including birthday's and thoughts. A family share life daily and nightly and these days of compiling energy and sharing are brought forth into a simple piece of art reminding them of their journey. "And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:"  1 Kings 9:4 Laurie Pace A Texas Artist   My Blog        ...

Back to Heart to Heart now entitled How Great Thou Art, Five Hearts      © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 How Great Thou Art, Five Hearts  30 x 40 inches Mixed Media on Canvas. SOLD - Gift The Layering continued on this abstract heart painting while I was putting up the five extra give aways. Now it is time to finish this painting as it is a Christmas gift. This is the fourth Sunday in Advent. I really do not know where the time has gone in December. We have seen a little bit of everything from unexpected ice storms paralyzing our lives for almost a week, to sweet memories made with our grandchildren, and with our families.  Everything is in His time and not ours.  Jesus' birth was part of God's plan in His time, and it is now our time to reflect deeply on this simple birth and great magnitude it had on generations to come.  Reading our advent going from...

     © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Progress on Mixed Media Hearts 30 x 40 inches Mixed Media on canvas  Pushed a little further last night... still watching where this grows as it develops a spirit of its own. Longing for something lately? Are you looking for hope? Are their bills piling up or commitments threatening to bury you?  What are you desiring in your heart that would make you feel JOY? As humans we long to hope for things our lives. Are we hoping for things that are valuable in this world?  Use this time to grow closer to God. Desire his love and light in your life. His light will shine over the darkness of your sins.     Make me know Your ways, O Lord:   Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me,  For You are the God of my salvation;  For You I wait all the day. Psalm 25:4-5 Laurie Pace A Texas Artis...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Progress on Five Hearts  30 x 40 inches Mixed Media on Canvas.  I began to work on collaging papers over the Bible and Narnia pages. This type of work has it's own path and often I have to step back and let it go on its own.  Please watch each day for progress here OR a new giveaway.  I have everyone that entered for the 12 Days of Christmas and there are five more paintings to give away.  So check back each day. I will list the winners with the 12 Days of Christmas winners. Mary said:   “My being proclaims the greatness of the Lord,  my spirit finds joy   in God my savior,   For he has looked upon   his servant in her lowliness;  all ages to come shall   call me blessed.   God who is mighty   has done great things for me,  holy is his name;  His mercy is from...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Heart to Heart 5 Commissioned Painting  30 x 40 inches Mixed Media on Canvas. SOLD  I took a bit of time choosing the Bible pages to put down on the base foundation of this piece and on top of those woven across are pages from the Chronicles of Narnia. The basic premise here are three hearts representing three children, but my deep feel is to do five hearts to include the parents... so I am working with fives as this begins to unfold. There are five hearts in Narnia built on top of the Bible and there are five waves across the top of the composition and two on the left side and three on the right side. Again the Spirit begins to build and the painting takes on its own personality.  More about Baby John and his birth from Luke and the 'Spirit' that fills this newborn babe.  " And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High...

  © G.O.D. Laurie Justus Pace      Graphics One Design 2013 Life Givers  10 x 10 inches Mixed Media on Canvas. SOLD  Who are the life givers you know? These are the people in your journey that are always there for you, always giving and providing when you need it. They never ask questions because they know you so well, and they know you only ask when you really need something.   Life Givers ... I believe God has a special gift He gives to some of us.  Just being in the presence of a life giver provides comfort to you.  While some may believe 'things' can be life givers, I personally am drawn to the touch of a hand, the warmth of a smile, the kindness of help and companionship when I am weary.  A life giver empowers you to continue and make your way. They support you.   In art I felt this in the symbol of a heart and from there I did a series of heart paintings. This was the firs...

Progression on Horse Painting, Leap of Faith 18 x 27 inches Oil on Canvas ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012 Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Flowing Waters... Nature surround us ... and lately with inches and inches of rain to a thirsty drought stricken wooded area. The impact of spring and March showers brings fully budding trees, blossoming iris and tulips as well as green grass. Each season brings with it part of the cycle of season of life.  It is all divinely ordained by God. The same is true for your life, God has a plan for you. Seek His guidance and align your efforts with Him to be flowing in His stream of creative process. Words of my Heart, Laurie "For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven." Ecclesiastes 3:1 My Blog    My Website     Giclees on Canvas, ...

Heart Series 1 6 x 6 inches Acrylic on Canvas Heart Painting for Valentines $100  ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2012  Contact me for your own commissioned painting: Laurie      My Prayer this week for Gentleness For some reason for the second time this week I have been stirred in my morning petitions and prayers to the single word of gentleness. Reflecting on the word brought to mind when Jesus met the woman of Samaria and asked her about her husband...and she immediately changed the subject to worship. Jesus did not press her on the true issue of her past, but allowed her to sway the conversation to her comfort zone and he reached out to answer that of what she asked him. Gentle people will always be cautious of the feelings of others and not probe into unspoken areas. A gentle person seeks to offer comfort and protect others from being "exposed" and condemned. We seem to be forthright society no...

Bits and Pieces Hospice Heart Painting 2012 Auction available, contact me. Laurie   24 x 24 inches  Mixed Media on Canvas   ©Laurie Pace    Graphics One Design 1998-2011   Contact me for your own commissioned painting or to purchase this piece: Laurie      Four Candles This last week in Advent is a full seven day week fr us to become aware of what is truly going on in our lives these days and if it is truly bringing us in the season for the right reason.   As our minister Jack reminds us, Christmas is often the loneliest time of the year for many people. Often there are sad memories attached or the death of a loved one. Sometimes is just purely being alone with out family or someone to smile at or sing Silent Night with.  Terry and I were watching a movie on the love channel called Lovely Still by Nik Fackler. Nik was only 22 when he wrote the script for this film. His a...