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Until recently, Laura Gibson never thought she was an artistic person. "I always considered myself as a math-oriented person," she explains. "And now I'm privileged to be exploring my artistic side. I'm just enjoying a second career."
It seems, however, that art was always in Laura's blood. Her mother was a talented sculptor and Laura's grandmother took up painting when she was 74. Laura recalls her own artistic endeavors, "painting with watercolors in the closet when I was a little girl." It was always abstract and what she enjoyed most was playing with the colors. "Making jewelry is like being in the closet playing with the colors," she says.
Ever since she was a young girl, Laura loved creating things, She has fond memories of making gifts and always doing something with her hands, be it needlepoint, knitting, or other crafts. It was always a hobby though.
After a successful career at IBM, Laura Gibson rediscovered her creative side. It was not planned. At the age of 40, Laura decided to start taking piano lessons. Soon after, she and her husband, an Arizona-native, decided to relocate from California, to Tucson. When she wasn't working on fundraising for the school district, Laura focused her time and energy on playing the piano. Yet, her passion for the piano was eventually replaced with a newfound love of jewelry making.
Laura attended her first Tucson gem show with a friend. That same friend talked Laura into buying some silver beads and Austrian crystals to make her first necklace. At the...
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