Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

© 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'...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2026 At The Ocean Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   The Tomorrows... are you with me?  There is something about standing at the edge of the ocean that changes our sense of time. The water seems endless. The horizon stretches farther than our eyes can follow. And there she stands—small against all that vastness, looking outward. When I look at this painting now, I think about the tomorrows. When we are young, there seem to be so many of them.  We grow each day in our individual ways, reaching toward futures we cannot yet imagine. And perhaps that shouldn't stop simply because we grow older. Our tomorrows change. Our plans change. We change. Yet God is still at work in us. God does not change.  I don't have to see beyond the horizon to know there is something there. Perhaps our lives are much the same. We see today.  God sees beyond the horizon. Elle Read the ...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2026 Falling for You Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   What makes us fall in love with something when we can't quite explain why? A person. A place. A piece of music. Even a painting. When I look again at Falling for You, I remember what I loved about painting her. She isn't completely revealed.  One eye seems to find you while the other slips behind her hair and all that fractured color. Her hair becomes streaks and slabs of paint. Her clothing nearly disappears into the marks around her. And yet, we find her. Face enough to find her. Paint enough not to trap her. Maybe life is like that too. We spend so much time wanting to understand everything before we're willing to trust. We want the whole picture before taking the next step. But faith doesn't give us the entire picture. “For we walk by faith, not by sight.” — 2 Corinthians 5:7 Perhaps we don't always need to see eve...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2026 Immersed   24 x 24 Available. Full Photo on my Website blog. Click the painting to view it.  Immersed — Layer Upon Layer “Adam named his wife Eve, because she would become the mother of all the living.” — Genesis 3:20 I thought she was finished. Then I took one more chance. I didn't want to repaint the garden of color that had grown around her, so I rolled a transparent veil across portions of the canvas with a brayer. What was underneath remained. Some marks were easy to see. Others became quieter. Some nearly disappeared. And suddenly I realized how much that resembles us. We are layer upon layer, generation upon generation. The woman who emerged on my canvas no longer looked exactly like the woman in the old photograph where I began. Her face changed. Her hair changed. Everything around her changed. But she held her gaze. She marked that canvas, and the journey came forward. I began t...

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2026 Painting In process Oil on Canvas  SOLD   by Laurie Pace   “He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” – Ecclesiastes 3:11 Finding Her in the Paint I began with an older black-and-white photograph. It didn't look exactly like the woman who eventually appeared on my canvas, but it gave me somewhere to begin. I had a 24 x 24 canvas in the studio, so that became the size. No great plan. Just a photograph, a square canvas, and charcoal. Before going very far, I pulled out my color chart and began mixing small samples of colors that spoke to me. Most eventually found their way into the painting. I had absolutely no idea what the background would become. My brain kept saying, Make it dark. Follow the photograph.    My heart kept saying, COLOR. I didn't want to bur...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Winter Chill 24 x 24 Oil on Canvas (available)   by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. ““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.”  ― Louis Carroll - Alice In Wonderland  Nothing is more chilling that the rawness of winter.  Winter is here in full force.  We are almost to Feb and the memories of Feb last year are crashing in around us.  A close family member was hospitalized, an aunt died at 94 and Covid arrived... with a shut down March 2nd.   The rawness is still with us. The Covid is still with us. The "WINTER" is still here forcing us into isolation and madness.  Meanwhile I...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Niki 30 x 30  Acrylic on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Some things in life are out of your control. You can make it a party or a tragedy.” ― Nora Roberts, Vision in White Niki lived this in life and in death.  I met her in 2003 over the internet and she was contacting me about learning to paint.  We had a deep connection as we shared long two hour conversations daily. She was grieving the death of her partner and really reaching out trying to find something to take her mind off her pain and loss.  She did paint for about two years but fell...