©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2024 Light Before Sunset  Laurie Pace   The photo was taken back in late March as we headed home from church one Sunday night... and the sky was intensely vivid just before the sun began to sink.  It was that moment you catch your breath and hold it as you take in the beauty of the sky.   I have been catching my breath and holding it lately.  Last night I struggled at one a.m. to return to sleep. Thankfully Spotify seems to work with the sound of rain ... ten hours worth, but I am awake b ..read more

 ©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2023 First Iris 2024  by Laurie Pace   Looking out my bedroom window is a beautiful bed of Iris. They only peek out and bloom March, April and early May. My peonies are blooming too. These flowers are my vision when things begin to fail around me, or evil seems to arise.  In your life now and before, there are likely things you did not like that you had to deal with no matter what.  Over the years you learn resilience from these times and often that came at a price of knocking your head a ..read more

  ©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2024 Hints of Picasso  by Laurie Pace   I absolutely love this piece painted between 2007 and 2009. There is a freedom and freshness in this painting, even today discovering it in my archives. Vivid reds, yellows and blues predominately with cross over colors of green and orange.  I am still working out the sadness in life missing my Mom this week especially. Probably this is why I was called to share this particular painting.  When we cleared out her home and all the paintings in the hou ..read more

©Laurie Pace       Graphics One Design 2024 After the Afternoon Rains 9 x 12  Oils on Canvas A flash back from 2014 and a sweet small enticing painting 9 x 12 in size.  My color addiction really shows in this piece with my collected painted ponies!  Contemporary palette knife horses straight from my studio! One of Those Days  It was a delicious night of sleep... and I woke up late, but still dove into my Bible readings, which I do each morning. JOYFUL CELEBRATION greeted me... with remembering it is Holy Week.  The sermon yesterday a ..read more

 ©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 ackn ..read more

© 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 ..read more

 ©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 ma ..read more

©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 fa ..read more

  ©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 ..read more

  ©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 ..read more