Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Sunlight Play  24 x 36   Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I want God to play in my bloodstream the way sunlight amuses itself on the water."  Elizabeth Gilbert  I think I reached that over saturation point of worrying too much.  I think I hit the wall. I know there are others out there in much worse shape. I only have to listen to the news to arrive here.  Today’s world is a frightening place filled with scary things. At the same time the bible promises me that God is able to protect us and help us and often He has to use miracles to do it. I hang on to my faith this day; I know and acknowledge His assuran

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Relationships 24 x 30 in  Oil on Canvas. Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." Pablo Picasso Even in Dallas we get our fair share of dust storms from west Texas. You can see it coming across the horizon in the west and the sky begins to turn a murky yellow. You have about 20 minutes to get where you are going and get everything buttoned up and shut in the house.  The dust begins blowing through and it is worse than fog because it hurts if you are out in it. It stings and bites as it hits your face and your arms. You definitely should not try and breath and it will scra

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Fair Flowers SOLD  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair." C S Lewis Have you ever heard someone say, "Wishful thinking!"?  I know today I was out in the garden cutting roses. I had high hopes or WISHFUL THINKING of collecting a vase full for the weekend. I found two roses, one yellow one from our Orphan Rose that belonged to Terry's mom, and one red one from my JFK rose bush. I also cruised by the peach tree and

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Summer Horse 79 2012  Size: 8 x 8  Oil on Canvas.Sold ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.” Virginia Woolf, Jacob’s Room I agree our nature is renewed day by day, but I also need my sleep by night. That certainly recharges my batteries. I read somewhere that your ‘day’ begins the night before when you climb into bed.  Think about that.  So when you pull up those covers you are setting the stage for what you now think of as tomorrow.    Every new day/night brings to you a new change and a chance to choose a new path. You can begin again. If you chose to start this as you clim

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Quiet Horizon 36 x 36  Acrylic on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air." Ralph Waldo Emerson This is a painting I just finished this past week for La Jolla Gallery in California.  I have so many beach photos from the Florida Coast and the Texas Coast, it is nice to have them for reference.  Water is my inspiration and my calm in life.  I can just imagine walking the beach with a storm moving in.  Makes your heart beat a little faster.  You just sighed in contentment watching the rain move in. God is there in the moment, just as He is here in this moment today. Are yo

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Summer Horse 65   Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "We accept the love we think we deserve." Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I had a client come by yesterday to pick up a painting. She is a professional... a doctor, with teenagers, soccer, baseball, a husband and her home. She stays so busy that I worry when I see her that she is burning the candle at both ends. I told her it took me to this age to realize only I could free myself from everything that binds me in my lifestyle. Somewhere a spiritual lights shines in each of us showing us the natural way. Are you ignoring it? True living is e

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017 Summer Horse 58  Sold  Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen; not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."  C. S. Lewis  Friday...this morning marks an attitude of Faith. Faith to believe in the limitless and in abundance provided by God. So often we are pulled down by fear or doubt in our lives as our faith is nudged and knocked about. Accept that these times will happen. Accept that we are to be tested and accept that bad things happen to good people. Well, they are bad things to us, but to Him they are good as what happens bring

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2017  Summer Horse 57  Sold   Oil on Canvas. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Available Paintings by Laurie Pace  Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The marks humans leave are too often scars."  John Green, The Fault in Our Stars Ask any mother with grown children to talk about when they were in labor giving birth to their children and they will remember all the funny unique things, including the joy of the baby's arrival, but not very many will remember the vivid pain of labor and delivery. The growing years of that child will produce many painful situations as they struggle toward independence. I think of what Job went through in the Bible and know that there was a time after it all happened, t