Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

The  Running Colors After the Rain There are pieces of life that quietly find their way into our paintings. © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2026 Running Colors After the Rain Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   Running Colors After the Rain holds many of them — a bright raincoat, chalk drawings on pavement, a blue flower painted by small hands, afternoons in the studio, and a love of horses passed from one generation to the next. She began painting at eighteen months old. Her very first piece sold for $250. She painted constantly — bold, instinctive, fearless with color. In this 3 x 4 ft oil, the horse is not separate from the child. It rises around her, becoming strength, imagination, and shared love. If you look closely, you’ll see her chalk house and the blue flower she once painted — small details woven into the surface. I thought I would keep this painting forever. This is my Granddaughter at a young age marveling at ...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 After the Afternoon Rains Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   My heart is breaking for all that were impacted by the hurricane.  Usually after regular rain, the sun comes out and there is still moisture in the air and everything seems to glow and glisten.  When I saw the shots of Asheville NC and the Artist's Studios under mud and water to the roofs ... my artist heart cannot even imagine.  Many of us do not know the physical devastation of events like this. Living in Texas and at one time about an hour or so from the coast in Nacogdoches for 18 years, we weathered many storms but nothing with devastation that hit Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.  We have friends in Tennessee but I have not heard if they were affected.  It would be awesome if Artists across the United States could come together and do what they did for Hawaii, o...