Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 White Flowers  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.” ― Robert Burns, Tam O'Shanter Revisiting pieces from ten years ago. Where did the years go?  Each year blooms before me, days fly even faster the older I get.  Each moment we are gifted here should be full of life and not filled with fear or worry.  I have been a worrier ever since my first memory.  When a tornado warning came out in St Louis, I would nervously sit on the kitchen chair next to the door that le

   © +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 into raising and showing Newfoundland Dogs. She had 6-8 of them running through her

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 24 x 36  Acrylic on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “A party without cake is just a meeting” ― Julia Child I smiled a huge smile when I received an email from someone I did not know... and this painting was attached to it.  It was gifted to them by a good friend in exchange for something the person had done to help them. It was unexpected but the good friend knew how much the person was attracted to the painting.  The person searched for me and found my website. It was one of mine... entitled "Prom".  Painted during my pop art period;  I loved the simplicity of painting this group of pieces. They all tol

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Wild West Show At Mirada Fine Art ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You call yourself a free spirit, a "wild thing," and you're terrified somebody's gonna stick you in a cage. Well baby, you're already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it's not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somali-land. It's wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.” ― Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's Breakfast at Tiffany's is one of my favorite Audrey films. I have followed her since I was a little girl, awed by her grace and beauty in each and e

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 The Beginnings of Amazed.  36 x 40 inches Mixed media and Oil ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.”― Anna Quindlen Each process of painting is a new amazement when I am working.  This week I will share the painting "Amazed". This view is pretty far into it. I have taken the music from a country song named "Amazed' and applied it to the canvas. Then I sketched on the horses and began layering in some acrylic to find the beginning heartbeat or spirit of this painting. I have written endless time

Cut Away under the Moon by Laurie Pace © Laurie Pace 2014    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Size 24 x 36 Oil on Canvas Available. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Say you’ll marry me when I come back or, before God, I won’t go. I’ll stay around here and play a guitar under your window every night and sing at the top of my voice and compromise you, so you’ll have to marry me to save your reputation.” ― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind When I painted this piece I did not read Margaret Mitchell's quote.... I would have laughed all the way through the painting.  My parents bought my first guitar when I was about 11 or 12.  I played the piano so I became self tau

FLORIDA SUNRISE 18 X 27  SOLD  © LAURIE PACE 2014 CONTEMPORARY ABSTRACT HORSE PAINTING    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Florida Sunrise 18 x 27 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise.” ― William Blake Summer thoughts sent me back to a memory when I saw this painting in my archives.  My cousin Dawn was visiting from Florida with her granddaughter.  One morning before they were to fly home I took the little girl into my studio. I think she was about six ... and I painted this painting. Part of the joy of this little one watching me filled my soul as I painted... the sun was just coming

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 18 x 24  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt June first suddenly appeared on the calendar this morning. WOW... summer has truly begun.  I almost used a different quotes this morning... “Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” ― John Green, Looking for Alaska...  This painting thoug