Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Out of the Darkness  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. “It’s like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn’t want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn’t. They kept going, because they were holding on to something. That there is some go...

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2021 Lotus Painting in Process - Commission Painting Shop Available Artwork.   Sign up for my quarterly newsletter and painting sales. 400 Plus “ When you meet the thickest darkness in life, pray for the brightest light. ” ― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah   Def: Dark  -8: closed to the public “Life is dark in shutdown” Over 400 days Terry and I have been living in this new land of shutdown. Even with vaccines, things remain fuzzy on what is allowed and not allowed. For sure this time is the first darkness we have had hit us that has lasted over a year in length. When our nation was shut down in early March 2020, people were sentenced to stay home with their children and a virus spread across our country. Both Liberals and Conservative have their slant on the last year. For Terry and me, it has brought us closer… closer to God and to each other. Never did we believe w...