Ryan Jacque

Ryan Douglas Jacque is a native of Western Massachusetts where he still resides. At a young age Ryan attended art workshops at The George Walter Vincent Smith Museum in Springfield Mass and studied fine line drawing at the now defunct Ashton Institute of Art in Newington, CT. Ryan attended Ringling College of Art and Design on a portfolio scholarship and later studied at Paier College of Art in Hamden, CT. As an art student, Ryan was privileged to participate in a week-long field study John Seerey-Lester's "Wilderness Art Workshop" in Denali National Park, Alaska along with Alan Hunt and the late Paco Young. Ryan taught workshops at The Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA. Ryan’s portrait of internationally known wildlife artist Robert Bateman, which Ryan gifted to Mr. Bateman in 2013, was enlarged and is on permanent display at The Robert Bateman Centre in Victoria, BC.