Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 The Clearing  Size: 36 x 48  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ― C.G. Jung This is one of those quotes you need over your bathroom mirror when you get up each morning. It is too easy to look outside of ourselves and busy ourselves with 'things' and avoid facing reality. Living to grasp life at its fullest is rare these days. Too much time distracted by computers, phones and ipads. No longer do we consider face to face conversatio...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 36 x 48 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Eve: Anyway, thanks for riding to the rescue. You need a white hat. Good guys wear white, right? Roarke: I look better in black.” ― J.D. Robb, Treachery in Death So this is the guy in the white hat... he is in the lead and he is in the light.  He has plunged through the ribbon at the finish line and nothing but calm lays before him as he breaks into the peace. When was the last time you felt you had ARRIVED?  That for the moment and maybe a day... you are safe, good and it feels like nothing could ha...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 36 x 48  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Flame and shadow. One cannot exist without the other.” ― Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen So with the theme of the show being the Calm after the Storm, it pulled me into you cannot have the calm if you don't have the storm.  It is that Yin Yang thing.  Love/hate; tears/laughter; sad/happy; day/night.  I think you get my point.  So in the painting I am thinking of contrasting things. Each horse had to have something that makes them apart and unique from the others. What is a painting without c...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 36 x 48  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ― Haruki Murakami This is the horse still moving through the storm. He is represented by the dark blues reflecting the darkness of the sky, wind and rain surrounding him. His white mane whips in the wind but the str...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Size: 36 x 48 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Just because you don't say much doesn't mean people don't notice you. It's actually the quiet ones who often draw the most attention. There's this constant whirlwind of motion and sound all around, and then there's the quiet one, the eye of the storm.” ― Amy Efaw, After Painting for a show at Mirada.  I am all over the studio and sketchbooks with ideas. I told him maybe one horse,... but you never know.  So this one is three horses.  The Calm after the Storm is in reference to the turmoil of last y...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Hilltoppers Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” ― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist So I finished up this painting and hoping it dries for shipping in the next three weeks.  Our weather is so unpredictable.   We have actually had a bit of winter this past week. We had seventies on Tuesday and then a front came through bringing us back in the fifties during the day. Something special about having sea...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Hilltoppers  Size: 30 x 40 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches I was asked recently about the Women's March that went on across the country. I believe totally in our right to a civil protest, but my first belief is in God our Father.  He teaches us in his word to Love our enemies.  Jesus never protested and he stopped the disciples from being active in respond...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Hilltoppers Size: 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” ― L.M. Montgomery I jumped right in with color and working my way through the composition. I wanted this painting to have stronger browns and golds in it, so we will have to see how it works out from here. This will be at the Fringe Gallery in Salt Lake City.  Taking this painting day by day and allow it to take part in the process of unfolding for its own energy.  Some nights I am eager to go to bed... the day ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Hilltoppers Size: 30 x 40 Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Peace begins with a smile..” ― Mother Teresa This is the beginning of another painting for The Fringe Gallery in Salt Lake City.  The name is already there for me as I begin because I am using an older painting as an inspiration. Rest assured, one of my own older paintings from about five years ago.  It always call back to me to revisit the composition, but the original was very organic from left over paints on my palette.  Here I will be using the space but filling it purposefully with the p...