Laurel is a Certified Zentangle Teacher® who moved to Windsor in 2011 from Victoria, BC to make a home for herself in vibrant Walkerville where she lives, works, and creates.

Writing is Laurel’s first and forever creative love, taking shape in the form of journals, poetry, stories, articles, and blogs. Throughout her own lifelong process of exploration and discovery in the world of visual art, she has tried a bit of everything from painting to fibre arts to jewellery making, most recently and passionately focusing on Zentangle®.

The Zentangle Method, created by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, is an easy-to-learn, relaxing, and fun way to create beautiful images by drawing structured patterns. Laurel stumbled across the wonderful world of Zentangle one serendipitous day in June 2013, and it was love at first sight. She was immediately captivated by the simplicity of tangle patterns and complex beauty of completed art pieces, and knew she had to begin learning this creative process herself.  After practicing the art form for several years on her own, Laurel traveled to Providence, RI to complete her training with the Zentangle founders, and became the first CZT (Certified Zentangle Teacher) in Windsor. She began teaching the Zentangle Method in the summer of 2016, offering both public and privately-scheduled classes, and has since taught the method to hundreds of students in the Windsor-Essex community. In recent years she has also expanded her reach by offering online classes, which have attracted a worldwide audience of Zentangle enthusiasts.

Laurel’s artwork has been featured in the Fall 2023 (Issue 6) and Spring 2024 (Issue 7) editions of Art, Create, Learn Magazine, and was on display at Art and Heirloom Shoppe in Chatham, ON from 2018 to 2020. Her Zentangle-Inspired Art, photography, and handmade books were also on display at the Walkerville Artists Collective (WAC) gallery in Windsor, ON, where she was a Member Artist from 2017 to 2025 and served on the Board of Directors for seven years.