So that his children might receive a better education, Jui-yuan Huang moved his entire family from Miaoli in central Taiwan to Toucheng in the northeast. Art mimicking life, he also passed through a number of art forms, trying to discover with which one he felt the strongest connection. Starting out in lacquer painting, he finally found his niche in wood carving, as it is the place where he finds he can best set and meet his own goals and pursue the boundaries of art as he sees them.