About Jacques Drapeau

My name is Jacques Drapeau.  The picture above is a selfie that I took not too terribly long ago.  It shows that I'm old.  In fact, I'm very old.  Older than I've ever been in the past.  I currently live in Marysville WA.

When I was young, I lived in the Jurassic.  The above picture shows me offering a doughnut to a stegosaurus.  I am aware that I'm not supposed to feed people food to wild animals.  The stegosaurus didn't complain.

Later on, I lived in the cretaceous.  This picture was taken then.  Posing for the picture was very nearly the end of me.  Just after the shutter snapped, the adult dinosaur to the left farted!  My olfactory sense has not been the same since.
I am educated, though I have had no formal art education.  I have a Bachelor of Arts degree in Chemistry and Physics from Whittier College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington.

In 1974, upon completion of my M.S. degree, I went to work for Longview Fibre Company.  In 2007, Longview Fibre was purchased by Brookfield Asset Management.  Brookfield management decided that I wasn’t an asset, or at least that I wasn’t an asset they wanted to manage.  I was “let go” in 2008.  Since then I have been an unemployed bum, or retired.  Readers should feel free to choose for themselves which they think best describes me.

Many of my paintings feature trains and dinosaurs.  Many small boys like trains and dinosaurs.  Most small boys grow out of liking trains and dinosaurs.  I haven't.  Some people are waiting for me to grow up.  Other people have given up on this happening.