Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ―  Marcel Proust Colors of the season ahead!  I love these days with cooler weather, frosty mornings, a cup of hot tea and a big bowl of oatmeal served in our holiday dishes covered in Cardinals and birds.  We pull these dishes out in early November and use them through the end of January.  I know every family has their own traditions and favorites that begin from Thanksgiving forward. This time of year can be very happy and in the next moment change can occur to make i

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 In Her Garden 18 x 24 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.” ―  Alfred Lord Tennyson How often do you stop and think about GOD and what kind of day he is having?   I remember when one year when teaching in Argyle Middle School,  I lost two of my students at different times for different reasons in one year...  they were taken back to heaven to be with God.  One actually was obese and had a heart attack and died, at school.  The other one was in a car full of family and the car was hit head on.  She did not survive.  I w

   © +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 would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.” ―  Henry David Thoreau Living life simply?  Sounds like it Henry David Thoreau! Perhaps the absurdity of materialism? Sometimes being alone is more luxurious than sharing space on a velvet cushion. What do you think about the quote?  Here it is in context:    "It is the luxurious and dissipated who set the fashions which the herd so diligently follow. The traveller who stops at the best houses, so called, soon discovers this, for the publicans presume him to

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 White Face  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Cradled Wood Panel. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason.” ― Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable Feast It is not time for New Years and resolutions... especially the ones we do not keep. But we are able to think about the things we could positiv

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Autumn Ending Cradled Wood Panel Oil  Size: 8 x 8   ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” ―  ―  Albert Camus Autumn is here blooming in color.  Blooming is something new to consider for any season.   Every day you have a new opportunity to bloom. You have so many choices. Word choices, action choices, clothes choices, friends, food, etc.  In many places people wake up to the same old every single day, locked into only one available thing possibly for breakfast if not nothing at all... only the clothes on their back, no place to bath and no hot coffee or tea to start your day. No f

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015 Morning Mist  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.”  ―  Charles Dickens ,  Great Expectations Tranquility perhaps a word not used as often but so important in the balance in our lives. It is a quality of state of being... calmness, peacefulness, quiet and serene. And when were you last 'tranquil'? Connecting

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Escaping  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings.”  ―  J.R.R. Tolkien ,  The Hobbit Just when you think life is on an even keel... you can count on something disruptive to happen.  That is called LIFE.  We cannot  L ive  I n  F ear  E motionally... aka LIFE.  But truly life is filled constantly with change and learning to roll with the waves and not tump into the water is essential.  We have heat and cold, love and hate, joy and sorrow, rain and shine... and life continues on. Choose to relax and roll with it if you can. If you can't pray, find a

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2015  Snowfall  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says "Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.”  ―  Lewis Carroll   Alice in Wonderland Nothing is sweeter than rocking our grand-babies here. We have a baby granddaughter that is nine months old and a brand new baby grandson.  You kiss their foreheads so gently as they fall asleep and smile down at their sweetness. Terry says you have to have these moments not to want to do away with them when they ar