[2] He received his undergraduate degree in German from Davidson College in 1967 (art was not offered as a major yet) and studied abroad at Philipps University in Marburg, Germany for a year.
[3] Three years later he earned his master's degree in fine arts from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1970.
Jackson has had more than 100 single-artist exhibitions in several countries, including England, Portugal, and Peru.
Some of Jackson's work was chosen to be included in the first exhibition of contemporary American art to be presented in the former USSR.
He is most known for his paintings, both larger works on canvas and smaller on board, and also for his oil crayon drawings on paper.