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Justin grew up on an island northwest of Seattle, WA called Orcas Island. From a young age he was constantly exposed to some form of creativity, from his mother’s pottery to his father’s custom home building as well as always being around other artists from the island. The island itself is its own work of art. Island life is a slower life style and you can’t help but absorb the natural beauty God has created on and around the islands. When Justin was a sophomore in high school his family moved to Mapleton, UT. He attended Springville High School in the "Art City" of Utah. When he turned 19 Justin served a 2 year proselyting mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS) in Washington where he served for several months on the very island where he had grown up. When he returned home he started attending UVSC and after about a year and a half he married his beautiful wife Keary. One day, while Justin was out talking to his mother in her studio where she was throwing a pot, he started playing around with the clay. An idea came into his head to sculpt the Manti Temple for his wife, where they planned to be married soon. Since that day the ideas just keep coming into his head so he just keeps sculpting.
Eventually Justin moved from the water based clay, which had to be fired in a kiln, to working in bronze. Within Justin's first year of sculpting he had created a tremendous amount of art. It appears we are still in the first chapter of what appears to be a great story of the life and art of Justin Taylor
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