Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Into the Fire   Sold    Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Instead of cursing the darkness, light a candle.” ― Benjamin Franklin Preparation continues this second week of advent.  Our confidence that God is really there to save us begins to offer a peace to our heart and soul.   Most of our troubles we bring on ourselves and we grow weary and tired battling them...yet He waits for us to call to Him and He is ready to step in and set us free.  I think as this happens it encourages us further to put our trust and faith in Him in EVERY part of our life.  Invite him into places we have kept hidden in shame.  Open up to share all your v

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 White Horse Celebration Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.”  ―  Francis of Assisi There is darkness in all of our lives.  It can be from our past or our present.  I have been reading in the first chapter of James where he writes about our trials.  I will put the quote below in closing. We all have darkness.  With Advent opening this day with the Christian calendar, this seemed like the best place to start as you light your first Advent candle.  Let is symbolize our longings, our desires and our hopes. Renewal in our lives is an important pa

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 White Face  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Cradled Wood Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast It is not time for New Years and resolutions... especially the ones we do not keep. But we are able to think about the things we could positiv

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Morning Mist  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”  ―  Charles Dickens ,  Great Expectations Tranquility perhaps a word not used as often but so important in the balance in our lives. It is a quality of state of being... calmness, peacefulness, quiet and serene. And when were you last 'tranquil'? Connecting

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Snowfall  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”  ―  Lewis Carroll   Alice in Wonderland Nothing is sweeter than rocking our grand-babies here. We have a baby granddaughter that is nine months old and a brand new baby grandson.  You kiss their foreheads so gently as they fall asleep and smile down at their sweetness. Terry says you have to have these moments not to want to do away with them when they ar

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 11  2012  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “We can only learn to love by loving."― Iris Murdoch Love... what a huge landscape of a subject.  It is deep and wide.  It is outside and inside. Sometimes we use love for things it is not.  Love does not bring you peace, protection or constancy. Love it not a guarantee when it is between you and another human.  So while you read the quote above, you might have taken it only human to human.   That is one way to look at it.  You have to give to receive.  You cannot always be on the receiving in and there are no promises.  The only relationship that you can d

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Why are you crying?" "Because," she whispered, her voice shaking, "you remind me of what the world ought to be. What the world can be.” ― Sarah J. Maas, Crown of Midnight So the painting has taken a step forward since yesterday and I decided I have painted out too much of the red orange that was there.  Between now and tomorrow I will play with it for the balance I seek with the deep red orange and the midnight blues.  We all seek balance in life, but once we find it, it only stays a short time and we are back seeking again. Does that ever end?  Trusting in God we shou

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Painting in Progress. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn't make the darkness go away. The bad things are still out there. The nightmares still walking. When we hold each other we feel not safe, but better. "It's all right" we whisper, "I'm here, I love you." and we lie: "I'll never leave you." For just a moment or two the darkness doesn't seem so bad.” ― Neil Gaiman, Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days Whew... sigh... working on a painting that is in process of coming to be is comparable to being pregnant and giving birth.  Where it gets roug

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Painting in Progress ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” ― Beryl Markham, West with the Night This is the beginning of a painting entitled Deep of Night.  When I was searching for quotes that struck me to be a part of this process I foun