LauraLee K. Harris was born in Toronto in 1956, drawing and painting all her life, her work was predominately figurative beginning with portraiture. Growing up watching her mother and grandmother draw and paint, she was compelled to do the same. Her grandmother was a folk artist and her mother a caricaturist and the smell of oils was always in the house. Her father also dabbled in paints and other creative pursuits. Having a nomadic lifestyle she moved many times and went to many schools that provided challenging art programs exposing her to many media: soapstone sculpture, batiking, copper enameling, graphic arts, calligraphy, clay sculpture not to mention the traditional ones. This nomadic lifestyle sent her to Fort Lauderdale Florida in the seventies, where her father took her to private art lessons. This great introduction to a veritable plethora in a variety of medium provided a base for her ability to explore new untried realms of media.

During this time, she also moved in the direction and worked in the area of technology, studying and working as a programmer of COBOL on mainframes. Passing with honours, she remained unconflicted of where her loyalty lay. The two fields converged later when she discovered computer art but until then programming was how she earned her living. Programming to her was a creative venue in language, but it wasn't till she had children when she decided to focus her full energies, outside of raising her children, into art. In 1992 shortly after the birth of her 2nd child she donated her time to design and paint a mural on the back wall that backed onto a back alley of a NFP mother and child drop-in center in Parkdale.

After meeting her husband in the early eighties, he encouraged her to paint again and to study it further. He became her muse and her greatest supporter. She started painting portraiture in oils and then moved into acrylics, exploring a diverse range of subject matter. She took courses at the Forest Hill Art School, The Art Gallery of Ontario and finished her studies at the Ontario College of Art and Design. It was here that she explored woodcarving, collage, and other media, and found an aptitude to develop various new media on her own. In 1993 she was nominated, an Honour Student at the Ontario College of Art and Design to exhibit her work. In 1988 she began showing her work, but by the time of this nomination she began to feel her work needed depth, that it had no meaning, but did not have any reason to point it in any direction.

In 1994 she would meet an uncle that no family member knew existed. Outside of it being a personal piece of information, what he offered, would seem to be the catalyst that inspired her to reflect and create a series of unique work. Her grandmother was married to a Native man; this part of her heritage was hidden. She knew of her English/Irish/French mix but was never told of her Native side even though she had an unexplained notion. It was in 1994 her Uncle introduced himself to her family, with all her grandfather's ancestry records from the St. Boniface Historical Society. This would confirm her earlier Native perception, giving her a foundation with passion. With Ojibwe, Sioux, Cree, Chipewyan, Montagnaise, what she felt all those years was now confirmed and this became the milestone and the needed focus to create a body of work.

She began painting Native inspired work on canvas in 1994, and for the first time ever, wrote poetry with it. The new media; Acrylic on Wood using the grains began in 1996. The first show of this work at a gallery in Parry Sound proved, that this work was truly unique. People were continually mystified at the technique, imagery and the evocative words and it was based on these reactions that she diverged away from the traditional canvas and placed all her energies into the wood.

In 1995, she showed her work to a Native gallery in Yorkville called Maslac McLeod. The owner and elder became her mentor, and as well as showing her work in his gallery, he also helped her to understand the Native and Art worlds. In 1996 till present, she began showing with the ANDPVA organization, a provider of art promotion for Aboriginal Peoples. Here as a member, she would volunteer her time to help curate and mount group exhibitions twice a year since 1996. In 1996 she began donating 10% of her sales to Anishnawbe Health Toronto, in hopes to help bring back traditional teachings and healings, helping the homeless, the Aboriginal and People in need. This she felt would bring her work and buried history, full circle. In 1997, she volunteered, organized, helped curate The Arts In Spring fundraiser, bringing a community of children's local artist's work together, at her son's Public School.

In 1998 she was commissioned to create an original work and 200 limited edition prints for the banking industry.

In 2000, she was now showing internationally, she had won the Award of Excellence and the Special Recognition awards in Omaha, Nebraska in a juried exhibition called “Beautiful 2000”. In 2001 she was represented by the Agora Gallery in Soho New York and by 2002, she was showing in Museums in Canada and the US.

She continues to show her works, which have been televised, in newspapers, magazines, in private and public collections worldwide and continues to provide her application of heart into all of her work.