Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a modest Simplicity clearly within his Means and free from Debts or Obligations, is really the most respectable Man in Society, makes himself and all about him the most happy.” — JOHN ADAMS, LETTERS OF JOHN ADAMS, ADDRESSED TO HIS WIFE Legacies are truly important in our lives. From a young age we begin our memories with those o...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Come clean with a child heart, Laugh as peaches in the summer wind. Let rain on a house roof be a song, Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June." Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt I know at my ripe old age of 64, I think more of wanting to just shake off all the worry and the work and remember my  'child heart'.  Should we think more of stopping to listen to the wind or rain, and to run outside and play in it? If we were eight years old, what would we be doing this summer?  Where are our child hearts? ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love." John Muir At this home of one year, there is not a crepe myrtle. I am hoping this fall to plant one or two. They are my summer tr...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography Miss Lily ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To site with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing wasn't boring, it was peace." Milan Kundera MIss Lily... she is my daughter in law's pup. She has had her since she was a wee one adopted from the pound. Lilly scares me... she is an aggressive little thing that is accustomed to being her mamas number one. I heard last week at lunch that her health is failing.  I cannot even imagine visiting my ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.  I was just corresponding with a fellow artist close in age and enjoying the comparisons of where we are in life.   We are both in that process of cleaning out our 'stuff' from our past years that is not needed any more, and finding more space and freedom in our lives.    Sometimes in these digging out of closets and cabinets we find things we often wish we had not found.  Have you dug up ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photoraphy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste." John Green, Paper Towns This is one of my palettes after scraping a painting. Can you believe the mess?  I never waste it... I always move it onto the next painting.  Looking at the thick paint, you realize the intensity of color and the vibrancy of the palette as a whole.  How do you live your life? Are you constantly scraping off things and l...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dude, the bush is ready. Why you still beating around it?"   " I've lived a long time, kid, and I never heard anyone mutilate the English language quite like you."  Karen Marie Moning, ICED "YOU SHOULD NOT SAY SUCH BAD WORDS."   Terry and I were reading right along together...he was reading out loud from the book of 2Samuel, when suddenly our Alexa (aka Echo) spoke out loudly, "You should not say such bad words."   Terry was reading from the new King James version of the Bible.   We have had some issues with our Alexa (a...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Photography sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Maundy Thursday is so called because that night, the night before he was betrayed, Jesus gave the command, the mandatum, that we should love one another. Not necessarily with the love of our desiring, but with a demanding love, even a demeaning love—as in washing the feet of faithless friends who will run away and leave you naked to your enemies.” ― Richard John Neuhaus, Death On A Friday Afternoon: Meditations On The Last Words Of Jesus From The Cross This week continues as we have arrived today to what we call Maundy Thurs...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography by Terry Pace ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “ I didn't belong as a kid, and that always bothered me. If only I'd known that one day my differentness would be an asset, then my early life would have been much easier.” ― Bette Midler I was reading recently an article from becoming minimalist on why self-worth is more important than net-worth. Today in our world it always seems to 'matter' about the net-worth and who can collect the most toys. As an artist, your value seems to be dictated by your gallery representation and the image you portray online.  We all hav...