After a childhood spent drawing, painting and making crafts out of tissue boxes and pipe cleaners, Laura attended York University for Fine Art and Sheridan College for Illustration. Since then, she has created lighthearted and whimsical illustrations for children’s books and magazines, greeting cards and stationery, restaurant and retail applications, and various children’s products. She works with bright, textured swatches of colour, illustrated vintage type, and other collaged elements in a digitally compiled method that still looks hand painted. Laura lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband, her 10-year-old daughter, Posy, and Red the redbone coonhound. She works happily in a vine-covered converted garage in her backyard, occasionally interrupted by baby raccoons wandering across the skylight.