Laurie Fields was born in New York city.  She started her career as a textile designer  while she was a resident artist at Framington Valley Arts Center in Connecticut.  Although she is now paints full-time, textiles and design continue to influence her work, lending complex texture and dimension to her abstract paintings.

Fields combines collage with painting to create her well-known images.  Scraps of roof tile, cellophane, paper and airbrush shadows add three dimensionality to her work.  In many of her abstracts, beams of light flash from the center of the image, directing the eye to more subtle colors and forms.

Taracopa I	Taracopa II	Radii

Fields was the recipient of an Individual Artists Grant from the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and received numerous awards including an exhibit of women artists at the Slater Museum.   In 1981, she was accepted as a resident artist at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia, where she currently has her studio.

A graduate of the University of Hartford Art School, her work has been included in many corporate collections.  She has also been featured in Cosmopolitan, Designer, and Interior Designer magazines.  She has won recognition and awards in various art shows.  She also regularly shows at several galleries along the eastern coast of the United States.