Licensed to “free range” in an unconventional household, Laura explored fearlessly.  After high school, she earned an Associate in Design in Mixed Media at Niagara Community College.  She moved to Boston in 1982, where she drove a taxi while studying Nursing @ UMass Boston.  In 1990 she left for Los Angeles and worked as a nurse while raising her son, Ari.  Whenever possible, she created textiles, handbags, jewelry, and gardenscape lampshades using flowers she pressed in her garage and other spaces she converted into studios.

Passionate to create full time, she left Nursing and enhanced her skills in Oshibana, the Japanese artform of pressing and arranging botanicals.  Discontent that flowers fade and envisioning their permanent vibrance, she spent years solving her dilemma.  She arrived at hand painting every component of each botanical.  She created dozens of heirloom pieces.