Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 River Bank 24 x 30  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Commissioned Painting.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings for sale by Laurie Pace          “The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on." Milan Kundera  The Unbearable Lightness of Being Do you ever worry about your personal safety?  Do you worry about your children, your adult kids, your grandchildren, your parents... do you fear that they could be hurt in some way? Do you believe Satan may be laying for you or your family?  Are you worried about this country with all the conflict in Washington? ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Seven Sail Away 24 x 30 Moonlight Madness  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Pure Justus  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings for sale by Laurie Pace          “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” Aristotle Can I really believe it is possible to be more organized with God?  You tell me.  How about listening to him, waiting on him, and even losing the worry that constantly creeps in your mind? Listening seems to be one of the first things our parents try to teach us .  Memories ring back of me speaking to my own children...  "DID YOU HEAR ME?"     "LISTEN TO ME"  "WHY DON'T YOU EVER LISTEN?" "ARE YOU LISTENI...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Red Poppies on Blue 36 x 36  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Pure Justus - Contemporary Flower Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said..."As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells...and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower...both strange and familiar.”  Cornelia Funke    Flower and books... pressing the memories forever.  I remember doing it as a young ch...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Losing Direction 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Pure Justus Contemporary Horse Paintings Sharing my faith and family.  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “ “I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”  Henry David Thoreau An appropriate painting.. "Losing Directions".  We have all been there in life ...probably several times more than we wanted to be.  Ultimately we all seek joy in our lives.  Unless you know sorrow, you cannot fully know and appreciate joy....

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Goodnight to the Day 12 x 24  Oil on Canvas  SOLD - Commissioned Painting from a Wine Maker. Used on a new wine.  Pure Justus, Beach Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Do I love you? My God, if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.” William Goldman  The Princess Bride We hear the words, GOD IS LOVE... but do we accept it with an open heart and hands? Do you believe it?  Aren't most of us wanting acceptance and love? What could you do on a universe of beaches all filled with God's love?  His love is overpowering.  ALL WE NEED IS LOVE: God's love is steadfast and unchanging. We can trust in ...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Horse Southwest Horse 65 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas  SOLD |  Pure Justus ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “You are all the colors in one, at full brightness.” Jennifer Niven This one is a blast from the past and I could not even find the title of it... so I just called it Horse Southwestern. It was from one of my 100 horses in 100 days for $100.  Debating on doing that again.  Would you like it?  Let me know. Sizes ranged from 8 x 8 up to 12 x 16. Might have been several even larger.  Always fun to do these. What shines bright in your life right now?  For me it is the Lord.  " For God, who said, “Let light shine out of dark...

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Descent 9 x 12  Oil on Canvas  SOLD Pure Justus Contemporary Horse Painting ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FOLLOW MY BLOG  ON INSTAGRAM     @lauriepaceblog Available Paintings by Laurie Pace          “Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself.”   Franz Kafka I almost shivered when I came across this quote about writing. "The cold abyss of oneself"...  For me writing and art and music...the three gifts I have been graced with, are not about me, but about the celebration of the Father who chose them for me.  It is only through him that I can find my path through my work, be it writing, playing music or painting. Creating is for this artist, a powerful charge of the Holy Spirit within me coming out in words...