Laurie Pace - Fine Artist

  © Laurie Pace 2024 Disasters and misfortune are woven in the fabric of all our lives.  They appear without warning and can leave one with devastation that threatens existence or even life itself.  In most cases we are changed.  From weather related storms, to massive earthquakes, gun violence, illness, anger and misunderstandings, job loss, divorce, auto accidents, and more, we all face them in our lives.  Each one of us will navigate them differently.  " Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not rely on your own insight. in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths.” Proverbs 3: 5-6 My husband once said, ”What doesn’t kill you will strengthen you.” With age comes wisdom from experience. With trials comes the experience. What are your coping skills? As a mother or a father, you often grasp at what you have experienced in life, trying to use it to guide and prepare your children for these challenges.  What was missing for me was the simplicity

©  Laurie  Pace        Graphics One Design 2024 Rocky Mountain Sunrise -> Buy a 24 x 36 inch Giclee Print. Available through March 23, 2024 11 pm Central Time This painting brings back huge memories. It is a big one, thinking maybe 3 ft x 4 ft?  It was horizontal as I began building layers of browns thinking of doing a bear. I have really only painted one bear, but I had a photo to work from and thought... why not?  Well, two thirds of the way through I was not sold on continuing the bears.  I began pulling my palette knife up and down on the area with paint, and then I flipped the canvas to vertical.  I countered in the yellows and then re-pulled grays to cover edges.  I took my knife and began carving in the thick paint. I reverted to my passion of horses and made them larger and more detailed. I imagined them in my head standing on a cliff area slightly higher up in the mountains asa the sun fell to the east and the horses are gazing out to the west. Add

  © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Face Within .  This painting led off in my woman series of warriors back in 2022. Returning to figurative painting for a small collection, this one is magical. Can you find the second face? Layers of color and overlays criss cross this entire painting mapping out two faces.  Can you find the second one?  30 x 40 inches lush bright colors. Piled and layered by brush and palette knife. I am known and collected for my intense color.  The Latest Quest Putting God first.  In the Bible it makes it seem very simple. From my understanding, we need to move our thinking process and all our thoughts to a divine level. Once we do that, we’ll see that God‘s actually got all the physical stuff taken care of. Had to think about that forward to really define what a divine level might mean. And Colossians, chapter 3 verse two, it says “Set your mind on things above, not on things of the earth.”  In Matthew, chapter 6 verse 30, it says “Seek firs

© Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Yellow Sunflowers 12 x 12  Oils on Canvas Available    by Laurie Pace   COLORS... colors of those cool mornings in spring and early summer. The dew on the grass and the flowers open to the morning light with pink and gold skies lighting up.  The colors are balanced woven together for this beautiful piece.  2 Corinthians 4:6 "For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ." Do not Give into Life, but Yield to God This came to mind this morning when I was walking on my treadmill.  The life we have here on earth is easily swayed and affected by the times, by our friends and our enemies...  as well as our personal journey here on earth. We are distracted by chaos on the internet, social media,  politics, illegal immigrants taking over our communities, cartels, drugs etc.  At night we sink into a cha

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 Crossing the Rio Grande 5 x 8 feet  Oils on Canvas. Commission This was one of three commissions completed for a law firm in Houston. We were living out at Lake Cypress Springs during that time and the canvas size was 5 x 8 ft for two of them and I did a panel triplet for the third one.  I have many of the process pictures on this, but am sharing mainly the raw beauty of the final painting and the area of the Rio Grande that has the same colors and wild feel. All was done in Palette Knife with a dance of color and texture creating the story.  If you want a personal commission painting for your home... contact me on my website.  I would need to know the size and the subject matter, your time table of need, a down payment and the dance with paint can begin.  Strength from Sorrow Now it came to pass after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke into Joshua, the son of nun, saying Moses my servant

   © Laurie Pace        Graphics One Design 2023 UNFOLDING   8 x 8 inches  Oils on Cradled Panel      Available      Unfolding... each day presents us with a new start and hope for the day.  It unfolds before us. Here in the studio... it is a might be slower than it was in 2022. In most of 2023, I was between home and Dallas with my Mom and most of you know she passed late last year.  We never know what the day will bring as it unfolds. This morning in my reading...  Ephesians 1:7 " In whom we have our redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace." And from my Daily Streams " There is no way of learning faith except by trial. It is God’s school of faith, and it is far better for us to learn to trust God than to enjoy life." If you approach this day and each new day knowing God’s infinite wisdom and wealth is enough for each of us to bloom and grow, especially with his inexh