Born and raised in Vermont, Michael Jacques began his formal art education at Boston University’s School of Fine Arts where he earned a Bachelor’s Degree in 1967. After two years as an illustrator in the U.S. Army, he returned to New England and, in 1971, received a Master’s Degree from the Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, Connecticut.

Michael Jacques’ paintings, etchings and serigraphs have been widely praised from Cambridge to Miami and Washington, D.C. to Santa Barbara. While teaching drawing and painting as an Associate Professor of Fine Art at Boston’s Emmanuel College, Michael appeared in more than 40 one-man exhibitions. He has been represented in more than 125 national art shows and his work appears in museum permanent collections such as The Smithsonian’s Museum of American Art and National Collection in Washington, DC; Virginia’s Chrysler Museum; and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston.

In 1980, ABT Books of Cambridge, Massachusetts published Michael’s Images of Age. Nominated for the American Book Award for Original Art, this volume is an unusual collection of Goya-like drawings that capture the solitude of aging among the elderly in New England nursing homes.

“Being an artist requires more than merely being a committed observer”, says Michael. “It requires an ability to record the feelings that image awakens.”

For many years Michael Jacques exhibited at the historic Laguna Beach Festival of Arts. He teaches at the Laguna College of Art & Design.