A native of Tidewater Virginia, Laura Edwards trained as a painter at The University of North Carolina and maintained a working artist studio at The Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia for over 25 years. In 2020 she relocated and works from her home studio. She said of her paintings that they create an illusion; the painting you see and the one you imagine. Her pieces are done in oils on a veriety of materials; canvas, hard surface panels, and a Ph neutral paper produced from recycled polystyrene pellets. Paintings are worked "wet on wet" producing seamless fields of color within a format. A variety of marks are drawn into the work using Prismacolor pencil.