As a result, his compositions, heavily inspired by Brittany coasts and estuaries, have an element of the sublime and are intended to register deeply with the subconscious. He paints sparse landscapes intending something fundamentally pleasing in the surreal, idealized quality of his work. Born in Paris in 1957, Jacquet was trained as an architect at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. After pursuing his career in architecture, he decided to dedicate himself solely to painting and has been doing so for six years. One can detect his background in architecture in his heavily symmetrical, ge