Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 24 x 24   SOLD  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”  ― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Letting go of paralyzing fear is not the easiest thing to do. Living with anxiety is like living without the ability to live for yourself. I have lived this way most of my life... despite everything that I have done. The survival to push and succeed came from my parents. I started modeling at age 14... and did that through age 35.  Even with marriage, a husband and three children arriv...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Early Morning Hour - Sold  - Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “To be naked is to be oneself.   -   To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.”  ― John Berger, Ways of Seeing These quotes I come up with for the paintings I share always send me deep into thoughts. As I seem to be passing into another 'stage' age in life... changes that are noticeable more to me than others.  There is now the possibility of discovering who I am deep inside of me... not the person I try to be to please all the people in my...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Blooms  24 x 24 Sold  -  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.” ― Walt Disney Company, Mulan Here it is Wednesday and I do not have an update on the studio. SAD... I am sad.   This old floral painting just about reflects the household right now!   Terry has worked diligently putting in a new sturdy back door with inset blinds in between the glass.  We also ordered a new front door, by accident... happened to be in the right place at the right time. Lowes. ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Lazy Ours Miracle Pantry  Photo for Journal this morning! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You have to take risks, he said. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen. Every day, God gives us the sun--and also one moment in which we have the ability to change everything that makes us unhappy. Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist--that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover t...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Garden Spring Red  18 x 24 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them.” ― Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind This painting along with three others , should be arriving in Watkins Glen, New York for a Flower Gallery Show at Quintus Gallery.  For some odd reason, I fell in love with this piece as I worked on it and it was processed ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Photography Cover up ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside.”  ―  John Lennon So over the past three or four weeks we have been in a constant motion for a move. Our home sold the first day. The plan was to buy the house across the street to stay close to our kids and grandkids.  Things really never looked good on that front... not at all.  We were hit by one situation after another as the inspection revealed some major problems and the owner would not or could not fix them. We had to pray about it and decide ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Size: 10 x 30 Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “True beauty is a ray That springs from the sacred depths of the soul, and illuminates the body, just as life springs from the kernel of a stone and gives colour and scent to a flower.” ― Rumi What is true beauty?   I remembered a quote from Kahlil Gibran “Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.” How right this rings in my heart.  I am blessed with many friends of such great beauty. One of my older friends is my heart sis "Jan".  She is my go to mentor for everything an...