Born in Kansas in 1984, Jacob Aguiar can recall spending countless hours drawing what he saw out the window of his childhood home. An avid lover of the outdoors from an early age, his favorite activities as a child involved playing in the fields and woods of rural Kansas. This love of the outdoors is deeply engrained in his sense of self, and he feels most at ease in nature. It was in 2011 that his love of art and his love of nature met. Burned out in naturopathic medical school, he took a yearlong leave of absence to spend time with family and pursue art. He spent that year in the small Northern California town of Sebastopol studying masters of the landscape, and obsessively painting. During that year, he traveled throughout the west, studying with preeminent pastel landscape artists, and painting outdoors and in the studio. After nearly a decade splitting his time as a naturopathic doctor and artist, he recently retired from medicine to paint full time. Jacob is now an internationally recognized pastel artist living in Boxford, MA with his wife Laura, son Henry, and daughter Lucy. He splits his time between painting inspiring New England landscapes and the western landscape of Wyoming.