As a child growing up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Laura Peyton attended several private schools. Raised by classical musicians, she studied violin for ten years and learned to speak French fluently during her nine years at École Bilingue (now called the International School of Boston), a bilingual school then located in Arlington, Massachusetts. Laura learned her love of visual arts at Beaver Country Day School in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. After graduating from Boston University in 2002 with a BA in sociology, she moved to New York City and helped start a small jewelry design company based in Brooklyn. Laura attended the School of Visual Arts as a graduate student from 2008-2010 where she received an MFA in illustration and had several exhibitions of her work.