Jeanne DuCharme Taylor is a graduate of the Center for Creative Studies, in Detroit, Michigan. She married David A. Taylor in June of 1970 and moved to Florida in 1972, She taught sculpture to children and adults at the Dunedin Fine Art Center,Tampa and Gulf Coast Art Centers into the 1980's. From 1991 to 2002, in Atlanta, she continued to teach 2-D and 3-D art at elementary, middle and high schools, all the while keeping her own studio and showing in regional exhibits.

Her portraits and figurative sculptures are in private collections throughout the U.S. and in Europe. She has won prizes for her work in Florida, Georgia, and Michigan. In 2008 Jeanne introduced a Clay Sculpture Workshop to Citrus County Art Center, while offering classes for adults in Figure and Wildlife, and summer "Kids Clay n' Play" at her studio in Hernando. Most recently, she and her husband Dave have become Aurastone Distributors in the Tampa Bay area, and opened their Studio/Showroom/Classroom, Tampa Bay Centre for Creative Finishes. To see more of Jeanne's work, Check out the Sculpture Gallery.

David A. Taylor graduated from Michigan State University, College of Communication Arts and Sciences with his Bachelor's Degree in 1971. Together with his wife, Jeanne, he left the cold of Michigan in the winter of 1972 and headed to Florida. He worked as a Sailmaker for a time, learned to sail, and eventually joined his wife, after mentoring under a Master Potter, in her clay studio in the summer of 1973. He found an outlet of creativity he never thought he would enjoy.

Together they entered Art Festivals throughout the Southeast and Michigan, producing thousands of pieces of sculpture and pottery, both Raku and Stoneware. Dave has studied pottery, paper-making, basket-making, wood-working, tile-laying, remodeling, and acquired a wide variety of other life-skills, all in preparation for this adventure into becoming an Aurastone Distributor and opening the Tampa Bay Centre for Creative Finishes. Did you notice, Dave likes to fish?

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