Florian Jacot 

Biography  
 

Born in the Ivory Coast in 1976, Florian Jacot was raised in Switzerland.

After graduating from a postsecondary socio-medical training of three years, he explored his passion for art when he came to Toronto in 1996. 

He graduated from the Art diploma program of Central Tech School and from the Classical Animation diploma program of "Max the Mutt Animation Inc". He studied as well for one year at the Michael John Angel Studio, school of Classical figurative drawing and painting. Afterwards, Florian pursued his own studies looking closely at  the classical methods of the Old masters as well as the more recent approaches of direct painting "Alla prima" used by the impressionist painters. 

His work has been exhibited on several occasions in shows and galleries. In 1999, he received an award by The Sculpture Society of Canada for two of his sculptures. Now focusing mainly on drawing and painting, Florian works on  portrait commissions as well as a series of personal artwork for galleries. Next to his own classes on Portrait & Figure painting, he teaches Artistic Anatomy and Figure drawing at Max the Mutt Animation School and Figure sculpture at Centennial College.