Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Dazed © 2010 Laurie Pace Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod.” ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther Everyone... me included, has those dazed and confused moments. It actually gets worse the older you get. They call it the "Florida Moments".  The best part is when you have the 'AHA&quo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Blocked in Hydrangea Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That's part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads - at least that's where I imagine it - there's a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in awhile, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you'll live forever in your own private library.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafk

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Dawns Early Light    Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door.” ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems What do you see when you open every door?  Do you see clearly what lies ahead or what is before you?  We all seek clarity in life for making choices and decisions as we come to those doors and the choices before us.  Only God knows that is meant for us and sometimes we choose a different door than He would have us open. When asked to heal a blind man, Jesus put his hands over the man's eyes and his vision was restored.  But was it?  To the man, people looked like wa

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2010 Together Through the Journey. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Life is a journey, not a destination.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson The Bible shares with us the stories of Jesus and his many journeys.  There is not much written about his life as a teen or even in his twenties. But as he rolls into his thirties, his journeys are recorded by several of his disciples giving us an insight to God's power. There are five major events in the New Testament that cover the narrative of Christ's journey.  His Baptism, his Transfiguration, his Crucifixion, his Resurrection and his Ascension.   It began at thirty as he was baptised by John

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Grey Appaloosa Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".”― Paul McCartney Deep breath as I start writing this blog today.  I remember my last visit with my Dad before he passed away and continued on to God. I also remember some of my last visits shared with him as he began to slip further and further from his earthly bounds.  He saw people in his mind that had died years before. His Mom was there and his sisters. He talked a

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Hints of Picasso   Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Once I spoke the language of the flowers, Once I understood each word the caterpillar said, Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed. Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets, And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow, Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . . How did it go?  How did it go?” ― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein Shei Silverstein's book was a big hit with my children growing up.  We spent many hours

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Flower Photography. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love.” ― Nicholas Sparks I am still a child at heart. I am a child of God throughout my being. Being of God, my thoughts have creative

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2016 Rites of Spring SOLD ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again.” ― Suzanne Collins, Mockingjay Spring is the time for rebirth and renewal, but there are a few of us who cling to the joy of fall into winter.  It is the winding down of being outside and staying more indoors together, closer, enjoying intimate moments. I always look forward to fall and still waiting right now for those cooler nights and mornings. Texas is always late in getting there... clinging