Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2026 Before the Lights Come On My Art Studio on a Monday Morning “Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!” — Philippians 4:4 GOOD MORNING TO YOU!!! ☀️❤️🎨 Every morning, before I walk into my studio, an entire lifetime is waiting for me. The brushes stand in their holders. The palette holds yesterday's paint. The water glass waits for fresh beginnings. Then, usually around six in the morning, the lights come on. And the music begins! My studio is small, but it holds so much more than paint and canvas. There are photographs of my grandchildren, a colored-pencil drawing of my dad, a handmade cross, and a little waterfall painting I created in junior high around 1964. Its frame is made from black-painted yardsticks! A vase from Jackson Hole reminds me of my years with Rare Gallery. Audrey Hepburn has watched over my studio for 38 years, courtesy of a gift from my husband. My cameras, brushes, books, paintings, ...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2026 The Gathering Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   🌸 The Gathering of the Flowers When a Painting Needs Time to Bloom By Laurie Pace | Elle Pace Sometimes a painting needs time to become what it was meant to be. I began The Gathering, a 30 × 40 oil painting, with a white canvas and the softest touches of pink, lavender, blue, and green. The flowers seemed to float across the canvas. They were delicate, almost fragile, and I loved the softness of those first layers. But something told me the painting wasn't finished. So I set it aside. For nearly two months, those flowers waited in my studio while I wrestled with whether to leave them alone or continue painting. When I finally returned the canvas to my easel, I prayed that I could preserve their delicate beginnings. I began introducing blues and soft purples, building color gradually, layer upon layer. And then something beau...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2026 Juxtapose Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   Two Days Too Late — The Painting I Wish I Had Kept I loved that painting. It was called Juxtapose, an expressive figurative painting filled with color, movement, and exaggerated forms. It was supposed to go to a gallery in La Jolla, California, before COVID changed everything. But the gallery decided the painting wasn't workable at the time, so I never sent it. BUT... I had a commission waiting, and the canvas was exactly the size I needed.   So I began painting over Juxtapose. Two days later, the telephone rang.   It was the gallery in La Jolla.   She had a buyer for my painting! But by then, I had already begun merging colors over the figures. The painting she wanted was disappearing beneath the beginnings of a commissioned horse painting. There was no going back. The canvas eventually became 'Two Together Always'...