Elisabeth qualified in Typography and Graphic Communication at Reading University (1978-82). She has loved drawing and painting all her life, but has found more time to devote to this over the last few years. The graphic training gives Elisabeth's work enormous impact through balance, composition and graphic strength.
When Elisabeth paints she gets totally immersed in the subject. She starts painting when she has a strong passionate feeling for the subject matter, starting with a few quick preparatory sketches to establish composition, tonal values and heighten attention to detail - then goes for it! The process is fast and furious, painting instinctively and capturing the energy of the moment. The line is loose, unpredictable and irregular. It is this flowing, sheer enjoyment of mark making and instinctive reaction to the colours and shapes as they evolve that gives the pictures their personality.
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.".
