Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Visiting and Delivering Paintings  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Bless us in whatever experiences this day may bring to each of us. May we plant seeds of blessings to grow in the lives of others. May we have the energy to meet this day and its needs. May we not be distracted by worries. May we each enjoy every single simple quiet moment. Give us honesty and kindness living this day forward.  This beautiful horse Painting hangs in the home of one of my collectors. I was delivering two paintings to her home a week ago, and was thrilled to get to see the other pieces she had hung over the years. The one I’m sharing this morning is one of my favorites. The vivid contrasting colors combined with the horizontal movement of the horses across the water accented by the change of light at sunset, creates tha...

   © 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  Full Circle  24 x 36  Oils on Canvas SOLD from Mirada Fine Art in Denver  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.” George Eliot  MAY THE CIRCLE BE UNBROKEN Each of our lives is like a story. Stories usually have a beginning and an end. When you are born and when you die.  In between are small inner paragraphs of stories making up your full life story.  Today many of you can share these short stories from your life... and right now there may be high school teachers, college professors, life coaches, or even headhunters that want the real story of your past including accomplishments, the goals you have achieved, about your first job, or if you are focused on being a leader. They want you to share it all and 'beef it up', evo...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Circle of Love 8 x 8  Oils on Cradled Panel Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "It comes in steps before you feel the full power of love surrounding you. Same with this painting... I had an odd beginning with acrylic light layers before the oil joined the circle. I chose horses of course and in their true color of spirit... for me the Spirit of the Paint is God and His unfailing love for us. I bring you Circle of Love to start every day with!"  Elle   CIRCLES Circles are important in our lives. I came across an article on circles. Humans are drawn to the shape and even young babies  prefer Circle to straight lines.  A preference for circular shapes is deeply ingrained in all of us from birth.  "A 2011 eye-tracking study found that at five months of age, before they utter a...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 I Will Follow You 8 x 8  Oils on Cradled Panel Available    by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. "But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God."  Ruth 1:16 When I paint horses that are 'together'... I am always reminded of the ties in Ruth to her mother-in-laws family.  It also reminds me I was 11 and Terry was 13 when we met.  I will follow you.... and I still am, or is he following me?  Well, I know we both are following God.  BE OF FAITH Just a short thought after painting today... sometimes my 'abstract' pieces remind me so much of our lives today... Esp in the past four years. We have seen times of trouble and worry but not like ...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Movement of the Spirit 30 x 40  Oils on Canvas Sold  by Laurie Pace, Texas Artist          ELLEPACE.com Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales.  " When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come. " John 16:13   The Movement The year was 2005 This was one of my first time off the reservation finding the horse in the movement of the paint.   Yep, studio in Justin, Texas. I loved the home we lived in there. Plenty of room and large ones too... on two acres with a creek on the back. This is where I put down my brushes and Impressionism and took up a knife with my buttery oil paints. Again you see lots of red with orange and yellow. Contrast built with accen...