About Laurel

Update as of Jan 1 2024: Laurel has ceased her painting practice and has stopped creating paintings for a public audience.

As both a painter and a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Laurel works with the emotional landscape.

She abstracts both the tangle of our emotional storms and our calm inner seas into paint, colour, pencil and charcoal marks and, of course, texture. Laurel’s paintings are most known for their rich textures, expressive marks, and use of colour. She is particularly interested in the themes of transition, struggle and growth, and is inspired by human development, psychology, and her experience working in her role as a counselling therapist in private practice. Laurel's paintings celebrate the value of struggle in our very human lives.

Laurel attended SFU’s School for the Contemporary Arts and Emily Carr, and has a history as an internationally shown experimental video artist whom received Canada Council for the Arts support for multiple video projects over her video art career. Her work was collected internationally. Laurel now focuses her on her rewarding and in-demand private counselling practice.

Life is naturally full of ups and downs, sparkles and sparks, and bumps and grinds. My paintings reflect the ongoing storms of life while simultaneously providing a respite — yes, these paintings provide a rest from the tumult of life. The very act of looking, of considering, of contemplating is restful to our very being. We humans are drawn to looking, to seeing, and to seeking to understand. We are naturally Intrigued by looking for patterns, marks, and meanings. I make paintings that ask you to dwell on your emotional experience of looking and noticing what you see and feel. Paintings request your stillness while you take them in and that you find your own meaning.

Laurel is no longer creating paintings for the public.