Laura Jean Holdaway is exhibiting photographs in the Marlborough Town Hall Gallery from March through June during the usual opening hours. She is a native Californian who has also lived in New Hampshire, New Jersey, and Florida before settling in Storrs and working as a Medical Technologist at Manchester Hospital. She and her family love to travel both in the United States and internationally . She has taken pictures wherever they have been. However, it was with her first digital camera in 2006 that the “Photography Bug bit”, as she says, now allowing her to use her photos creatively to make quilts, mugs, mousepads, necklaces, and various other objects. In “Close to Home…and Beyond”, her exhibit at the Town Hall, she’s showing photos of favorite places around Connecticut as well as from many of the countries in which she has travelled.
Her show is sponsored by the Marlborough Arts Center, a non-profit regional center for the arts at 231 North Main Street in Marlborough, CT.