Laurel Wade’s early career began in the Vogue photographic studio as a black and white photographic printer, before broadening out to work as a freelance photographer’s assistant for advertising, fashion and editorial shoots across London.
For ten years he ran a black and white photographic lab in West London concentrating on advertising and portrait photographic services.
A move to the West Country in the early ‘90s marked a significant shift in lifestyle and career as painting took over and became his main focus.
Largely self taught, Laurel is now painting full time and exhibiting at a growing number of galleries in the west country.