Biography
Palmer has always remained in the Portsmouth area, close to the downs and farm fields he so vividly depicts. From 1945 to 1949 he was educated at St. John's College, Southsea, followed by a National Diploma of Design in painting and engraving from the Portsmouth College of Art and Design. Studying postgraduate courses at the Royal Academy, London, between 1955 and 1959, his artistic gifts were soon recognized and he was awarded the David Murray Landscape Scholarships, (1955/56/57) the Leverhulme Scholarship (1957), the Royal Academy Gold Medal and the Edward Scott Travelling Scholarship (1958).
While still at the RA, Palmer began teaching part-time at Winchester School of Art, where he became a full-time tutor in 1962, and in 1966, the head of the Foundation Department, retiring in December 1986. He then devoted himself full-time to his art. Since the early 1980s he has had a second career as a photographer.
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