Viewing a Laurie Justus Pace painting is a rich experience dripping 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 & human forms. It’s the same term used to describe the phenomena of seeing animals in clouds or faces in the moon. Ms. Pace’s award-winning work has been featured in American Art Collector, Cowboys & Indians, and Western Art Collector magazines.