Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Fleeting Moment SOLD  Oil on Canvas  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.  Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. I am thinking the year I painted this was 2004 and probably fall. I really enjoyed the journey and the intended message with rose in hand was the thoughts we cannot read. Perhaps if her gaze was part of the painting, you might see wonderment or joy....OR you might see tears and heartbreak.  What ever it was... it is fleeting moments never to be locked in time, but we all manage to lock all these fleeting moments into feelings that linger in our minds and hearts.  “ Life is made up of a collection of moments that are not ours to keep. The pain we encounter throughout our days spent on this earth comes from the illusion that some moments can be held onto. Clinging to people and experiences that were n...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2022 First Love 18 x 27 Oil on Canvas Sold  by Laurie Pace   Shop other Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. " The painting is the daughter of a friend I have known all of her life.  Soft and precious and real in so many ways.  A young girl lost in the music of her instrument.  Reminds me of how easily I get lost in playing my piano or one of my guitars.  If you look closely you see the triangle that is the main part of the composition rising from the bottom of the painting.  The eye actually enters at the top left of the canvas and you come straight down the instrument to the beautiful hair and face of the young girl. The concentration is only broken by her arm parallel to the bottom edge of the painting. The arm stops you from leaving the painting. You are to stay, study and enjoy the sto...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Face Within  30 x 40 Oil on Canvas  by Laurie Pace  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. Face within.  What does that mean?  Faces are funny in so many ways. We often wear them as a mask so others do not know our thoughts, our insecurities, or even our reactions. When do we lower the mask? In this journey on this figurative painting,  I was repurposing a canvas with a prior painting on it.  There are two faces in this piece.  Hence the name, Face Within.  I do believe we all hide a huge portion of who we are in our heart as well as our feelings of insecurity and worry.  Always look at the eyes. They tell the story within you.  Can you find the second face on this painting?    “ So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the teachings we p...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Both Sides of the Story 29 x 42  Mixed Media on Canvas . Pure Justus Collection ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and this one says I spend the rest of my life with you. Choose." Melina Marchetta I did not even want to ‘share my thoughts today’ after I read this…but I want to share the rest of the quote. “This hand says you spend the rest of your life with me," he said, holding out his left hand, "and this one says I spend the rest of my life with you. Choose." She bit her lip, tears welling in her eyes. She took both of his hands in hers and he shuddered. "I will die...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Both Sides of the Story 28 x 42 Mixed Media Available Here  Pure Justus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it's in hot water.” Eleanor Roosevelt   Just a tid-bit, but my Dad is related to Eleanor Roosevelt, so I think that means I am too! This painting feels done, but I will hang it in the studio and see if it calls back to me.  It looks like a woven tapestry in person, fully textured and the color with beautiful jewel type hues.  I love the quote I found... basically because you never know how strong your connection is with God until you are in 'hot water', or an unexpected situa...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Human Kind - Be Both Portion of a painting... Detail  Oil on Canvas Pure Justus . Figurative Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will.” Charlotte Bronte   Last Sunday I began a triptych painting, three panels of 30 x 60 inches in oil. It is one of my Good People Series with this one titled Human Kind - Be Both   The entire piece is 90 x 60 and will be heading to California to a new gallery opening.   I promised I would not show the full painting until closer to time but wanted to share a sneak peak at the luscious colors.  I prayed as I starte...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2018 A Sunrise Walk in the Garden  Size: 3 x 4 ft  Oil on Canvas. sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. If he had a wallet, your photo would be in it. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning... Face it, Friend. He is crazy about you!"  Max Lucado  So much to say on this subject... recognizing all the wonderful things... the amazing things we have in our lives to be thankful for and often we are worried about the things we do not have. God literally provides us all with so much beauty, goo...