Lorel can remember drawing and painting from the time she was little, but her focus in art began in high-school when an understanding Art teacher seeing her love of "mud" left her in the ceramics studio the whole year. After attending art school at Thompson Rivers University and Emily Carr in Vancouver, she returned to Kamloops to set up her pottery studio and sold her clay art and sculptural pottery throughout Canada. The past 10 years her work has shifted to painting and mixed media, but a highlight of her ceramic career was a series of wall installations and mosaics, including the Kookaburra mural in the lobby of the Sun Peaks Kookaburra Lodge. Lorel continues to create whenever possible while sharing her love of the arts with students and workshop participants.