Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2020 Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “It is hope-giving to consider the young, and it is also hope-giving to consider growth as a constant. Here I am at fifty-eight and in this past year I have only begun to understand what loving is … forced to my knees again and again like a gardener planting bulbs or weeding, so that I may once more bring a relationship to flower, keep it truly alive.” — MAY SARTON, JOURNAL OF A SOLITUDE It was a cold November when Terry and I planted bulbs for the late winter and early spring.  I am careful to lay out the packages with the bulbs as I direct the symphony of the planting by the time of emergence breaking the soil and blooming to perfection.  The tall ones in the back the short ones in the front and then of course the dates they will bloom syncing it all together.  READ MORE HERE . “You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2020 Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “I wonder if the snow loves the trees and fields, that it kisses them so gently? And then it covers them up snug, you know, with a white quilt; and perhaps it says, “Go to sleep, darlings, till the summer comes again.” — LEWIS CARROLL, ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND & THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS A Snowy Path This was the catfish pond in our backyard at Lake Cypress Springs. The lake itself was on the end of the pond with a dam of ground and a pathway across it. That is our home in the distance... READ MORE HERE “ So may all your enemies perish, LORD! But may all who love you be like the sun when it rises in its strength.” Then the land had peace forty years. " Judges 5:31 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio ne

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2020 Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “Along your pathway of life you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save.” — THOMAS S. MONSON A man leaving and retiring from his job is HARSH. Terry was not ready to retire from American Airlines.  He was only 58 but really sick with pneumonia and had missed many months of work.   Once we got moved, he walked twice to three times daily at the lake.  Sunrise with the deer running by us, Sunset with birds flying around settling for the night and at least one other time during the day.  READ MORE HERE. “Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.” — MATTHEW 7:13 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist  

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." ― WILFRED ARLAN PETERSON Choosing Your Path When you are a kid, life is really easier.  You can intuitively go where things are inviting you and you always have a good time. As you mature and grow into adulthood, a few of those paths are laid out after you make certain decisions about getting married, or having a baby.  As you sink into full responsible adult life, it calls upon you to make decisions and choices daily. We all go through the anxiety of decisions.  I had a Father that brought me teaching me to make lists… pros and cons. Read More Here   “ Jesus a

Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art — write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.”  — NEIL GAIMAN I need words of hope from YOU. How do you keep from overworking? I want to hear from you on how you slow down and smell the roses. I try so hard to limit my time but this computer and marketing suck me into my day and I am often lost to time. Read more here. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!” 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter.      My Website         

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Come to the Water . 8 x 10  Oil on Birch . Christmas Gift.  by Laurie Pace  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.    1 January 2020 -  I was doing it wrong.   28 years of marriage.  We have known each other over 55 years.  So when he confronted me about his work jeans and told me I was folding them wrong, I almost laughed!   I have always taken pride in taking care of him.   When we married a lmost 28 years ago,  I learned to fold his underwear exactly like he wanted it folded.  ...  Read more here about folding laundry.   Romans 8: 26-28. “In the same way the spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.   And he who search our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance with the will of God.   And we know that in

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Sunlight  by Laurie Pace - Available.   Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “ Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are ‘patches of Godlight’ in the woods of our experience. ”  C S Lewis Take your hands off!    Definitely the words of a mom... or a dad... but I think it is from someone else.  The command is a warning to not get hurt, burned, or have something extraordinary occur to you.  Like playing HOT POTATO in elementary school. You did not want to end up with it.    Read more here. “All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.”

   © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Dawn Rising  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   “We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves.” — LEONORA CARRINGTON Have you ever been stuck in life and frustrated by things not changing and situations worsening? There is another way to look at it.  Read More Here. “Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” — 1 THESSALONIANS 5:18 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter.      My Website          GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The LaJolla Gallery, LaJolla, CA Dutch Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas © Graphics One Design 2019-2020

     © +Laurie Pace         Graphics One Design 2019 Traveler  by Laurie Pace - Sold.  Visit Ellepace.com to see available artwork.   ““A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu  Teaching Art has always been a treasured gift.  Teaching children that the outcome of their artwork is not the important thing, but rather what is, is the journey and enjoyment they have creating the artwork.                                         Read More Here.   “  But I, with shouts of grateful praise, will sacrifice to you. What I have vowed I will make good. I will say, ‘Salvation comes from the LORD.’ " Jonah 1:8 Laurie Pace  -  A Texas Artist   INSTAGRAM  : @LauriePaceBlog Follow me on Facebook           Sign up for my monthly studio newsletter.      My Website          GALLERY LINKS Mirada Fine Art Denver CO ,   The LaJolla Gallery, LaJolla, CA Dutch Art