Profile

Laura Evans-Mills has been designing and building custom stained glass for over 30 years. Creating stained glass panels for mostly private residences in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Montecito, Hope Ranch, and the surrounding areas. Laura studied interior and environmental design at UCLA Extension. Her studies lead her to employment selling various architectural products such as wall coverings, textiles, high-end kitchen and bath fixtures, French trims and tassels, lightning, imported furniture, and doors windows and hardware. The latter is

                     where she found her love and talent for stained glass.                      

Laura started her glass business selling items at the Santa Barbara Beach Show and in stores throughout Santa Barbara. She then had the opportunity to apprentice under Steve Handleman, a master craftsman in the art of stained glass.

Laura is a tenant in the WAV building (Working Artists Ventura), live work lofts for artists in downtown Ventura. She finds inspiration for life and her art through the beauty of nature that the ocean and mountains around Ventura provide. Laura has enjoyed traveling in the past few years to places like Belize, Ibiza, a Safari in Tanzania Africa, and most recently the Philippines. She volunteers with LALA (Los Angeles League of Arts) LA's regional Burning Man chapter, and has attended Burning Man in the Nevada desert twice.

With her daughter off attending college, Laura looks forward to spending more time on commissions, making gallery pieces of her own designs, continuing to work on repairs, and building her on-line presence and marketplace.