Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us." Marianne Williamson, "A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles." I love the entire section of this quote, but did not want to have such a huge quote for the beginning.  Here is the rest of it: "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?  Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "One of life's gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness; for the crops carried in from the fields and the grapes from the vineyard." J. Robert Moskin Before we drown our sorrows and prayerful words in what is wrong with us, what we need and what is upside down in the world, it would be best to think of all we do have and be thankful for it first.  Going to the Lord in prayer only when you are in need, will rarely bring change in your life or situation. We should count our Blessings 1 Thessalonians 5:18  "Give thanks in al

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Come clean with a child heart, Laugh as peaches in the summer wind. Let rain on a house roof be a song, Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June." Carl Sandburg, Honey and Salt I know at my ripe old age of 64, I think more of wanting to just shake off all the worry and the work and remember my  'child heart'.  Should we think more of stopping to listen to the wind or rain, and to run outside and play in it? If we were eight years old, what would we be doing this summer?  Where are our child hearts? Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter through the narrow gate. For

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The sun shines not on us but in us. The rivers flow not past, but through us. Thrilling, tingling, vibrating every fiber and cell of the substance of our bodies, making them glide and sing. The trees wave and the flowers bloom in our bodies as well as our souls, and every bird song, wind song, and tremendous storm song of the rocks in the heart of the mountains is our song, our very own, and sings our love." John Muir At this home of one year, there is not a crepe myrtle. I am hoping this fall to plant one or two. They are my summer tree, and one of my Dad's favorites as well.  S

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography Miss Lily ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To site with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing wasn't boring, it was peace." Milan Kundera MIss Lily... she is my daughter in law's pup. She has had her since she was a wee one adopted from the pound. Lilly scares me... she is an aggressive little thing that is accustomed to being her mamas number one. I heard last week at lunch that her health is failing.  I cannot even imagine visiting my son and DIL home and Lily not being there.

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed." Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.  I was just corresponding with a fellow artist close in age and enjoying the comparisons of where we are in life.   We are both in that process of cleaning out our 'stuff' from our past years that is not needed any more, and finding more space and freedom in our lives.    Sometimes in these digging out of closets and cabinets we find things we often wish we had not found.  Have you dug up anything recently from the past? Acts 18:9-10  "One night t

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence." Carl Hiaasen The Golden Pond... Sunset in the winter, no leaves on the trees in this photo. You might say... bare to the light.  We are indeed bare to God's light in our own 'nakedness'. He can see everything inside and out. Rest on that thought a moment and start explaining... or rather praying.  Isaiah 6:8  "Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, "Whom shall I send? And who will go for us?" and I said, "Here am I, Send me!" 

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photoraphy ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste." John Green, Paper Towns This is one of my palettes after scraping a painting. Can you believe the mess?  I never waste it... I always move it onto the next painting.  Looking at the thick paint, you realize the intensity of color and the vibrancy of the palette as a whole.  How do you live your life? Are you constantly scraping off things and losing the best part of you? God created you fully an

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Photography New York ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." Helen Keller  Doors are something we open and close every day.  In our lives doors are opening and closing every day too.   James 1:19-20  "My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires." #horsepainting  #lauriepaceart  #equineart Lauri