Growing up on a Midwest farm provided Laurie with a wealth of formative experiences in relationship to the natural world. Beyond this experiential education, formal study in the arts has included the Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA 1986) and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MAAT 1997). Her artmaking path over the past two decades has included work as an arts educator, art therapist, illustrator, author, editor, designer, and sculptor. She also currently collaborates in the creation of contemplative garden spaces. The unifying threads of these various manifestations is that of image-maker, bridge-builder, and devotee of the creative spirit.

The qualities of beauty, curiosity, and mystery are most captivating and restorative to Laurie, and are those which she continually aims to invoke through artmaking. Living in the Rocky Mountain Region, she finds all of these qualities held in the theme and geography of wilderness. She continues to explore ways to hold sacred these precious wild places: the external wildernesses that are part of our planetary treasure, and also the internal wilderness of our own most intimate being. Here in this wild ground, the creative spark grows into a life fully remembered, imagined and lived. It is her hope that the images and words you encounter here will gently press you to remember, and inspire you to imagine your own best vision for us all.