Lorel's experience with clay began in high school when an understanding art teacher seeing her love of "mud" left her in the ceramics studio the whole year. After art school, she began decorating clay-work and ceramic sculpture, specializing in Raku and other primitive firing methods. "My lifelong endeavor has been to achieve excellence in form and function, to master the ability to make in clay what I can imagine, and to acheive a response from the viewer."