Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 18 x 27  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft landing is never guaranteed.” ― Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby Nothing in life is guaranteed but taxes and death. Heard my dad say this often when I was little.. but I learned quickly how true it was.  Even death does not avoid the IRS. UGH. So, when did you take a chance in life lately? What was it?  Anything from a move across country, a new job, a new store, a new friend, a new route to work... it could be anything.  Our leap of faith was this multigenerational family.  S

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size:24 x 36  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat was threadbare - there were holes at his elbows; the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul.” ― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables Guided to the water, the horses gather for drink.  We are guided in life by our choices as well. In this age of media and computers and cell phones... we are guided to be constantly connected.  We cannot go to sleep at night without checking our phones, texts, email etc.   We wake in the morning and grab our phone or ipad and begin our day w

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 10  Oil on Canvas.Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The road and the tale have both been long, would you not say so? The trip has been long and the cost has been high... but no great thing was ever attained easily. A long tale, like a tall Tower, must be built a stone at a time.” ― Stephen King, The Dark Tower What have you built of your life? What is the tale to tell of your life's journey? What stands out strong and good and what do you hide that no one knows?  I have my regrets... one very deep one and another one almost as deep.  I was young with one of them and very inexperienced. The other I was older and made t

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Painted Pony Size: 8 x 10  Acrylic on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “And the seasons they go 'round and 'round And the painted ponies go up and down. We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind From where we came And go round and round and round In the circle game.” ― Joni Mitchell, The Circle Game If you notice on the merry go round... all the horses move in syncopation up and down to the music. None of them move off beat.  It is harmonious and graceful.  As we are partnered in life with friends, spouses, family, jobs etc, we find we have to be part of the 'harmony&

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size:30 x 60  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring Riches... what are they?  What are they to you?  Gold? Is it getting through the month and not worry about paying bills?  It is affording groceries every week?  Is it just worry as to covering getting your nails done or going

Snow Horse    © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 18 x 27 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.” ― Lao Tzu Keep hoping for cooler temps. Posting a horse in the snow seem to help the heat. Dallas remains 10 degrees warmer than it should be right now. Need one of those strong cold fronts to push through but that is usually the first week of November. Just need some relief! I love this quote about being yourself.  I am so so so working on that. I have spent most of my years of my life trying to be what everyone else wants me to be, OR what I think they want

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Size: 8 x 8  Mixed Media on Canvas Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves.” ― Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted Was listening to a minister on Sunday morning and heard that same thing I have known forever... we own our pain.  We seem to nurture it and keep it around, never allowing things to heal.  We never allow ourselves to move on. We trap ourselves. We keep that pain in the deepest area of our heart and mind... but that is right where the pain is overwhelming.  Why do we do it to ourselves?   It is time to let some of y

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Photography. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;  Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Ballads and Other Poems Into each life rain does fall.  In mine and in yours. Trying times are part of our life's journey. Trying times brings on distress... and that becomes full blown stress.  One of my favorite things to do when I am on that edge of despair is to think about happier times that were full of joy and love.   I might even look for old pictures that bring back moments of that calmer time

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Horse 14  2012  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. Sold. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The father’s job is to teach his children how to be warriors, to give them the confidence to get on the horse to ride into battle when it’s necessary to do so. If you don’t get that from your father, you have to teach yourself.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail Yeehaw... nothing more stressful than thinking about 'battle'...but you do it every day. Constant stress when you are away from family and friends not there to support you. Worry about them when you are not there to support them. We seem to create a world aroun