{"id":14431,"date":"2016-09-01T14:53:37","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/?p=14431"},"modified":"2016-09-01T14:54:02","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T14:54:02","slug":"featured-artist-roland-palmaerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balcondart.com\/en\/featured-artist-roland-palmaerts\/","title":{"rendered":"FEATURED ARTIST : ROLAND PALMAERTS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Roland Palmaerts is a Belgian artist working in Quebec and in Belgium.\u00a0 He was born October 4th 1953.<\/p>\n

A graduate of both the Institut St Luc and of the Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux Arts de Bruxelles, Palmaerts becomes a commando paratrooper before coming to Quebec in 1980 to work as a a graphic artist.\u00a0 He becomes a professional artist at the age of 28.<\/p>\n

Although originally schooled as an oil painter, Roland Palmaerts is mostly recognized as a watercolour and acrylics artist.\u00a0 In fact, he is a well-respected teacher of those disciplines in his native Belgium where he heads an art school.<\/p>\n

Urban landscapes, pastoral scenes, musicians and other such subjects populate a body of work marked by colour and light.\u00a0 Of his favourite subjects Palmaerts says: \u2018\u2019If I dematerialise, I spiritualise\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n

A true international artist, Roland Palmaert\u2019s work is in galleries across Canada, Europe and even in some Asian countries.<\/p>\n

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