I’m Laura, of Laura Beach Printmaker. I’ve been an art, nature, and science fan since I was little. I'm lucky to have grown up in a household of art makers and enthusiasts. It started with finger painting and creating mud pies, then it was on to learning various craft techniques and assisting with art classes, before landing on my true love of printmaking.

It has been over twenty years of playing and experimenting in printmaking land, and I still love it the same as the first time I carved and printed my first piece. Since then, I’ve had the pleasure of creating in four different studio spaces, become obsessed with fonts, have transitioned from creating on tracing paper to the iPad, bought and sold metal type, have fallen in love with luscious thick 100% cotton papers, and have taken an irresistibly heavy  (1,000lb) baby, my early 1900s Chandler & Price Platen letterpress machine on three different travel trips. With the birth of my first little in 2020, I found the joy of cutting my own stencils, pulling ink through a screen, printing on fabric, and learning how to burn my own screens. It has been a wonderful printmaking evolution that continues to challenge and delight.

At present, it is all about the small batches of bright and cheery artwork that is inspired by nature, time with loved ones and joy in bright colors. I do my best to source raw materials from businesses that keep green in mind whenever I can! All the fun begins at my studio in the little beach town of Capitola, California, and takes me out and about throughout the Bay Area.