Laurie Gudim was born in Casper, Wyoming, and moved all over the West as she was growing up. Her family landed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, during the years she was in high school. She stayed there when they moved on three years later.

After five years as a ski bum, she went to college and graduate school in the San Francisco Bay Area. She returned to Wyoming with an MA in professional psychology and practiced Jungian psychotherapy there for many years.

She has studied spirituality and had a spiritual practice since she was nineteen. Ten years ago she began to devote herself to her spiritual art.

In her art work Laurie feels that the divine uses her to invite people into a clearer relationship with The Holy. And she has come to believe that this ministry is hers in all aspects of her life. She now uses the tools developed by C. G. Jung to help people come to new spiritual understandings in their lives.

In 1984 she decided to travel west, settling in Wyoming, where she worked as an advocate for women and children, primarily in the Battered Women's Movement, for 13 years. At present she is focusing her talent and time on creating images honoring the Blessed Mother.