Lauren Pyle is a native of Wall Township, Monmouth County, New Jersey and is a graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University, with a Bachelor’s Degree in American Studies. Lauren is the middle of five children, all independent, all creative, and all deeply influenced by their mother's work and training as a classical pianist and organist, and their father's love of the outdoors and work as an environmentalist and fisheries biologist. A nurturing legacy of agricultural resourcefulness, the drive for individuality, discipline, and a fierce will to succeed and overcome the odds have pushed Lauren forward in exploring her interests in dance, music, photography, writing, and fiber arts.

Lauren has worked teaching dance and gymnastics to children; English as a second language to adults from quite a few different countries; knitting, embroidery, sewing in different forums. While living in Philadelphia, Lauren was self-employed as a consultant for small art-related businesses which brought her into contact with photographers, graphic designers, painters, dance companies, architects, structural engineers, interior designers, metal workers and jewelers, carpenters and furniture makers, musicians, galleries and creative venues, among others. She was hired to assist in developing accounting and filing systems, marketing profiles, grant and proposal writing, and, most importantly, to witness and reflect the process for these creative individuals. This work invited Lauren into very special worlds of exploration of self through multiple mediums and provided her a first-hand education in art, psychology, kinetics, sociology, archeology and anthropology, mythology and mysticism, city planning and more that only this valuable sub-culture can provide on a day to day basis. During the same period, Lauren performed with Group Motion Multi-Media Dance Company, a first generation school of dancers and performers from the Mary Wigman school in Berlin, Germany. Dancing and performing kept Lauren attune with her own creative process while she was focused on the workings of business with others. Throughout, there was an interactive over-mesh among these artists.

A dance and stress-related injury in her lower back that incapacitated her for a year and a half led Lauren into the study of the healing arts in massage and bodywork, energy healing, acupressure and reflexology, herbs, vitamins, aromatherapy and nutrition. Lauren feels that, in retrospect, it was also a lesson in vulnerability, compassion and will. "It's extremely difficult to maintain one's independence when it's seemingly wiped away. But once this occurs and you are forced to recognize your own vulnerabilities and limitations, then the process of self-compassion can come forward. This compassion for our own uniqueness, in combination with the will to move forward, provides a powerful alchemy for self-realization through self-expression. And thus healing becomes an art."

Over the next several years, Lauren moved further into the field of deep tissue integrated massage work. This new field brought yet another level of understanding to boundaries, limitations, will and the human process. "The body has a memory of its own. Our everyday experiences are memorized by our cellular tissue so by working through those layers of memory a valuable resource for self-expression is uncovered." Six years after her back injury Lauren was able to return to dance classes. During this time she had the privilege of taking movement and healing workshops with Anna Halprin of The Tamalpa Institute and Elaine Summers, both considered avant-garde in their approach to healing techniques.

In 1998, Lauren moved to Baltimore and entered into a partnership of a hands-on renovation of a 215 year old house in the Fells Point section of the city and established Elzeard Pottery Gallery representing Baltimore Clay artists. When her partner became ill and circumstances forced the gallery to close, Lauren reverted back to the knitting which she had learned from an aunt when she was 5 years old. She was hired as a sales person and colorist at A Good Yarn, a yarn shop also in Fells Point.

A Good Yarn proved to be a wonderful playground for color and texture and inspired Lauren in her love for textiles and fabric. She remained there until moving to Deer Isle, Maine in 2003,where she worked in home health care and in Sihaya Hopkin's Blossom Studio and Gallery in the village of Deer Isle. It was Sihaya’s shift to Brooklin, Maine that introduced Lauren to her current studio and gallery location. The open and sunny second floor space provided a blank palette which has become Web of the Quill, a studio and gallery of fine art and crafts, from which Lauren develops her shawl designs and represents the work of approximately 15 other artists in a mixed array of mediums.