Laurie’s path in life has encompassed many careers: from runway/print model for 20 years to graphic artist, from musician to singer, from teacher to artist. The greatest influence in her life are the gifts and love through her faith and God.

Laurie Pace graduated with a degree in art and history, spent ten years with an advertising agency, and thirty-five years teaching art. This brought her full circle to top honors yearly at international art shows in oil, watercolor, and photography.

She pushes the edge with every painting. Laurie presses for discovery in her work and celebration of energy and life. Her compositions are fluid, with color and dimension setting the pace for a unique painting every time with a new journey.

Viewing a Pace painting is a rich experience that drips with color and emotion.  Her passionate works are alive with movement and texture, boldly created with a wide brush and a palette knife. She loves working with oils, dramatically carving out the paint and transferring her energy to the canvas and ultimately on to the viewer.

Laurie is a co-founder of four working groups of artists: Contemporary Fine Art International, Artists of Texas, Daily Painters of Texas, and the Five Graces. She is founder of Visual Language Magazine, serving as Executive Editor from 2012 to 2015. In addition she is an associate member of WAOW and the Oil Painters of America, The American Watercolor Society, Daily Painters, and International Equine Artists.