Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold 30 x 40 Oil Painting Tulips Afternoon Garden Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Within my heart a garden grows, wild with violets and fragrant rose. bright daffodils line the narrow path, my footsteps silent as i pass. sweet tulips nod their heads in rest; i kneel in prayer to seek Gods best. for round my garden a fence stands firm to guard my heart so i can learn who should enter, and who should wait on the other side of my locked gate. i clasp the key around my neck and wonder if the time is yet. if i unlocked the gate today, would you come in? or run away?” ― Robin Jones Gunn One of my thoughts two summers ago was i

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016  Painting in Progress 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “But I have always thought that these tulips must have had names. They were red, and orange and red, and red and orange and yellow, like the ember in a nursery fire of a winter's evening. I remember them.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline My lighting in the studio is bad. Terry has fixed it since this was taken.  But I think you can see where this painting is headed.  It is full of joy and bursting with colors... the colors of embers in a fire.  This is the feeling of color and celebration I want. Not the fire but the depth of those brilliant colors in a field of bl

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Painting in Progress 30 x 40   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “A tulip doesn’t strive to impress anyone. It doesn’t struggle to be different than a rose. It doesn’t have to. It is different. And there’s room in the garden for every flower. You didn’t have to struggle to make your face different than anyone else’s on earth. It just is. You are unique because you were created that way. Look at little children in kindergarten. They’re all different without trying to be. As long as they’re unselfconsciously being themselves, they can’t help but shine. It’s only later, when children are taught to compete, to strive to be better

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Painting in Progress  Oil on Canvas. 40 x 30 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Hope.   It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's a fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat.” ― Tahereh Mafi, Unravel M I know with the hot summer days of August that last week was sheer relief giving me hope of cooler September nights at least. Days will still be hot, but if it cools off at night, there is hope of fall ahead.  I do not like to rush the seasons as they are rushing by quickly righ

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When you set sail for Ithaca, wish for the road to be long, full of adventures, full of knowledge.” ― Constantine P. Cavafy August sailing...sometimes fun with a strong southern wind.  Usually very warm so you want to sail at sunrise or sunset. I like sunrise. Terry gets the boat ready just before the sun breaks the horizon and we take off on the catamaran as the wind picks up with the sunrise.  Those are special mornings.   I pray whatever place you must "Sail" this day that there are good winds and lots of adventure.  There the LORD will be our Mighty One. It will be l

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Rocky Mountain Pony  Size: 30 x 30    Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You're off to Great Places!   Today is your day!  Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!”  ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go! This painting was done back in 2007.  I actually love all the colors and the strength of the presence of the horse.  It is in a private collection.  When I come across these older pieces I am often inspired to try something similar.  Have to see where that goes today! A new challenge, a new mountain to climb... are you on your way? I hope you are climbing a new mountain to take on a new view in life

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 River Crossing  Oil on Canvas. Sold  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.” ― Rumi It has been an unusual August.  We have had our two weeks of 100-109 degree temps and suddenly this weekend a cold front blew through and this entire week will be in the eighties.  This morning we actually woke to cloudy skies and drizzle for the first time in months. It has not officially rained here in almost two months.   SO I chose this painting to share...which speaks to me of red hot skies and trying to cool in the water that is almost like hot bath water.  Trying hard to esca

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Sold Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden This painting is another gift for a friend in Missouri. She has in her home her Grandmother's piano.  She loves my piano girls and I do not do many of them any more... but this one I had to do. It has all her Grandmother's favorite Hymns, including "In the Garden".  Each of these paintings is hand created with songs and verses that are part of the family's life. Are there things that are symbolic or special in your life?  Make those apart of who