The Spirit of the Paint 2012

Viewing a Laurie Justus Pace painting is a rich experience that drips with color and emotion. Her passionate works are alive with movement, 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. Pareidolia is the name for what happens when Ms. Pace gazes at her thickly applied strokes of oil paint and begins to visualize equine forms. It's the same term used to describe the phenomena of seeing animals in clouds or faces in the moon. This fifth edition of Pace's Painted Ponies is filled with paintings done in 2011 and early 2012. Her diversity and strength with both knife and brush is evident in the collection for this book.