[5] She started studying art at age 10, and by 1947 she attended private instruction by traditionalist painter Robert Roché.

In an interview with art critic John Yau in The Brooklyn Rail, Jacquette said of the way she came to begin painting aerial views: It happened by accident, of course.

I didn’t ever plan it, I was going to visit my parents who had just moved to California and I was in a plane with watercolors and I started to see that the clouds were amazing when you’re right in them.

[1][13] As noted in The Female Gaze, "Jacquette's works began with direct studies made with pastel on paper or photographs taken from airplanes, skyscrapers, or rented single-engine planes.

Unique views and radical angles draw attention to the act of perception, anthropomorphizing the buildings that occupy her urbanscapes.