Laurel draws her inspiration from her life in the PNW. As a self taught artist, she worked in a small fine art store through her college years. She extensively played with every medium the store carried so she could teach her customers proper use and technique. Laurel took many art electives while pursing her BA, first at SPSCC, and then TESC. An introduction to printmaking class founded her love of printmaking. Her final academic project was a coloring book to promote the Procession of the Species, the non-profit published her book and it was used for promotional material. 

Laurel has been a member of Splash Gallery of Olympia for the last nine years and currently leads the board of directors. The community and support Splash provides has been vital to Laurel's growth. 

Laurel's work has shown up all around her hometown of Olympia and beyond. For several years she was curator of Pop-Up-Galleries in empty store fronts during Olympia's Art Walks. She's had solo shows a tmany private establishments throughout Western Washington. Laurel's art has won placement on three traffic boxes in Olympia and a large utility box in Maple Valley. A Metal flag near the Olympia Capitol Campus features one of her block print designs. She was awarded Artwalk cover artist in 2021. She has painted two murals with the Eastside Neighborhood Association and in 2023 she was one of LoveOlys featured poster artists.


Laurel is a printmaker and painter forever inspired by her life in the PNW. Growing up she spent her days forging paths under the underbrush, scaling forested hills using fistfuls of sword ferns as ropes, navigating log jammed rivers, and wielding her pocketknife carving her initials into places she probably shouldn’t have. Since then, she’s learned to use her carving skills more appropriately in her home-based printmaking studio. Laurel works in a variety of printmaking techniques including relief prints, engraving, mono-printing and silk-screening. 

For relief prints Laurel uses hand tools to carve both woodblocks and linocuts. All her blocks are printed using black ink. The black & white prints are works of art that stand on their own. Laurel then paints a selection of the prints, each one a little different, using watercolors and colored pencils. Thus, she creates unique individual works out of the mostly identical prints.

When carving relief woodblocks Laurel will sometimes work on raw edge wood. After the printing process is finished, Laurel will hang the woodblock as a separate piece of art.