Anna Laura was started in Melbourne, Australia in July 2006 during my winter break from teaching art and multimedia. It began with a little felt lady badge with a large red beehive and a red bag, screenprinted with a bird. Since then it has grown with products available both online and in shops around Australia and overseas.

I completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2001 from the University of Ballarat, majoring in drawing, painting and public art and minoring in photography, printmaking and multimedia. My artwork is held in various public and private collections and I was awarded the 2001 University of Ballarat Travel Award during my final year of stury. I travelled to South Africa and Scotland in 2002-2003 and in 1998 lived in Belgium as an AFS exchange student and attended the Secundair Kunstinstituut in Gent.

My bags and pouches feature screenprints that I create using paper stencils, which I cut by hand. The process allows a more organic design as I draw the print images by hand rather than using a computer. This creates a limited edition of print runs allowing each item to be unique and exclusive.

The felt lady badges that I create are all one of a kind. Over the last year and a half of making them I have created many different hairstyles and they vary from the first red beehive I made back in 2006. The badges all have their own personality due to the nature of stitching their faces by hand and although some can look quite similar, they are just like people, no two are ever exactly the same.