In the spring of 1989, Pascal set out for the West Coast. His first freelance work came from The Vancouver Sun Newspaper, for their Saturday Review section. These assignments led to a contract with Vancouver Opera in 1991. The four paintings produced for that season were seen throughout the city, from back-lit transit shelters to Robson Street shop window displays and in numerous print applications. This project served as a true launching pad for new local and international work.

Since then, Pascal has illustrated projects as varied as tea packaging in Holland, videogame slip covers in England, annual reports, book jackets for education textbooks, contemporary fiction and young readers' books as well as numerous advertising campaigns. His award winning children's book, Rainbow Bay (written by Stephen Eaton Hume), appeared in 1995, and he recently completed work on The Art Room (written by Susan Vande Griek) due out this year. His work has been recognized by, and appeared in, Communication Arts, The Society of Illustrators and Applied Arts magazine. For more details please see Selected Clients and Portfolio.

Pascal's work is produced in oil paint on either primed paper or canvas, and while occasionally stylized, is based in realism. Figures and objects are loosely rendered, and often based on his own photos or sketches. The breath of real life, whether in the detail of an interior or the lighting of a face, helps convey a truthfulness and recognizability in his work. Pascal is often inspired by seemingly unrelated objects something as overlooked as a rusty traffic sign under the Granville Street bridge, the tilt of an old man's hat, or the pattern of interwoven overhead cables in a back alley. He carries a sketchbook.