Laurie works with oil and chalk pastels, watercolours, charcoal, pencils and mixed media. He paints on paper and also on the pages of ruined French books. For Laurie, art is a constant discovery. His subjects will present problems, clues, wrong turns and undiscovered beauty. He uses his fingers, paint brushes and rags to paint, blot, change and imagine. Painting is like a snapshot of a beach, making marks in sand which are covered and changed and worn away.