Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Herd on the Hudson 24 x 36 inches  Oils on Canvas SOLD  by Laurie Pace   Herd on the Hudson painting was the top feature of the Million Dollar Jumper Competition in Saurgerties, New York in September 2010. It was an exciting five days of competition in one of the most beautiful places in New York in the Hudson River Valley. We drove up from East Texas to enjoy the festivities and Kimberly and Don Conrad flew in from Denver to join us. We were allowed access to areas by the jumpers to film and photograph the horses, we attended many of the extra curricular activities, and we met up with other artists and painters living in that area that we knew from online at The Daily Painters.  It was a tremendous trip. The Conrads joined us at an open field concert by John Fogerty where we sat under cloudy skies with soft rains and occasional bursts of stars.  We spe...

   © 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 a...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 A Swirl of Dreams 24 x 24 x 1.5  Oils on Canvas Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. This painting, A Swirl of Dreams, is in the holding process !  Meaning I worked on it two or three weeks, adding layer after layer and I think I am done, but I have to watch it for a few days!  Every child, and especially little girls, like to twirl and swirl in circles.  The world blurs to colors and light and creates a joyful place to dream. Do you Dream? I always was a dreamer and I loved to read... today I have been diving into a book called 27,000 Steps by Sara Thurman... it is an Epic Marriage Story guided in faith by leaving a legacy. The book is linked to Amazon if you click it.   I am only four chapters in and somehow at the same time reading an ar...

The Get Away 15 x 30  Oils on Canvas Stolen and Missing from Santa Fe Gallery  by Laurie Pace          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. " John 10:10 The Stolen Artwork The year was 2010 It was really called "The Get Away"   and to have it really be 'stolen away' was astonishing. My work was delivered to a gallery in Santa Fe, where several other artists I knew were represented. It was a little bit quirky but seem fine as one of the artists was an Artist of Texas and I had known her quite a few years.  The gallery had on and off problems but I did get paid for sales... then the owner had to travel and left someone there at the gallery... then due to health reasons it was closing and they sent my unsold work back, but no "The Get Away" .  I truly loved ...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Summer Winds  by Laurie Pace   Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”  Leo Tolstoy  PAINTING 🖌 Transitions and change ... This was part of a painting that began as two horses sketched on a canvas... paint applied and knifed around... and this beautiful contemporary horse emerging. There were parts I loved and parts that seem weak. It stayed like this about 24 hours and I was back to play with it. This painting no longer exists.  Palette Knife Modern Representational Abstract Horse Painting called Summer Winds.     👉 LIFE 😀💏  "Change" September the month that marks the change from the summer heat here in Texas. Our temps will stay in the 90's most of this month and this week the high nineties.  It wa...

      © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Looking in the Mirror   Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   This time of sheltering led to a lot of reflection. Some days I was unsure of direction.  When everything in our world is upside down and the very places and family you find comfort with you cannot visit... you are left with 1000 piece puzzles and many hours of TIME.  With the shutdown, many of my galleries have closed.  Do I keep painting?  Then you start looking at yourself in the mirror every morning for over 120 plus days without makeup, and you begin to  .... Read more here. “ Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. " Romans 12:9 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly stud...