Roland Palmaerts

Biography

Born October 4, 1953 in Brussels (Belgium), Roland Palmaerts is born into a family of painters. He did his apprenticeship surrounded by tables of his father and great-grandfather. At the age of six, he won first prize in the national competition Tintin. Roland Palmaerts studied at the Athenaeum, at the Institut Saint-Luc and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels where he won the first prize in drawing watercolour.

In 1972, the artist joined the Belgian armed forces as a paratrooper. He obtained many patents whose instructor «first climber» Hindsight, it finds that this more physical period of his life has instilled a great discipline and a strong endurance as much as particular as human contact "thousand men per year, an average of the highest nobility through the most diverse social spectrum, showed their strengths and their weaknesses, their courage and their fears, entrusting you with their lives.".

Roland Palmaerts