Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Racing the Morning 28 x 42 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes -- do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke This is an older painting from 2013 that sold pretty quickly after I painted it. I

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Changing Direction 30 x 40  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You'll Go! Are you walking in the right direction? Are you confused or lost? Do you wake up on Monday and dread the week ahead? Are you sitting there on Sunday feeling empty?  Time to find your map and your direction. How do you do that?  Grab a pen and a piece of paper and write down what your dream life would look l

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Mid Journey Sunset 24 x 24 Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds This was a commissioned painting back in Spring 2013.  I have not painted many sailboats lately and probably will do one soon.  These are the colors chosen by the collector, and they are indeed bright forceful beautiful basic colors, but my palette has been changing. Happens to all of us.  Still not a big champion of yellow, but suddenly I am thinking muted reds, blues, greens and greys.  I believe my next sunset

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Golden Boy 24 x 30 Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Monday words and both are so full of study and heart. "All that is gold does not glitter."  I says it all doesn't it? But then cross referencing in the Bible for something that ties into both my heart and my

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Rustic Herd 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 will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.” ― Pablo Neruda Springs of water are important to us today as much as they were to the people living in Israel 2500 years ago. Both God and the Gospel will compare springs of living water to be life giving refreshing qualities.  I am drawn that direction when I think of Winter thawing out and the season of Spring arriving and all the blooming of the world with the gentle sun and the flowing springs of

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 First Flowers  Size: 24 x 24  Acrylic and Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “The earth laughs in flowers.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson Well..surprise. This painting is reduced to $650 and it is 24 x 24. Has hung in my home and I have loved having it brighten my world.  Click on the painting to see it in my available art. What makes you smile? What makes you laugh?    I tend to appreciate less stress so that I can relax and be myself.  Time to dust old things off, let in fresh air, change the water in the dog's bowl and open my heart to spring as it arrives. That my friend is less stress.  Then go and play with a grandchild

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Color Rising Size: 24 x 36 Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.” ― John Burroughs This just brings me back full circle to the serenity prayer . . . . "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."  Reinhold Niebuhr It is human nature to REACT and not think before reacting.  Often our mouths lead the charge and we regret words spoken in haste.  Seems to be hard at any age to do this.  Engaging your brain before you s

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Nothing happened. And everything did. Your whole life you can be told something is wrong and so you believe it. Why should you question it? But then slowly seeds are planted inside of you, one by one, by a touch or a look or a day skateboarding in a park, and they start to burst out of old hulls shells and they start to sprout. And pretty soon there are so many of them. They are named Love and Trust and Kindness and Joy and Desire and Wonder and Spirit and Soulmate. They grow into a garden so dense and thick that it starts to invade your brain where the old things you were once told are dying.