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Philippe Smith alias Philippe DESMET Belgium. "A Passion for Art now, Resin Art".

Born in 1952 at Cortoriacum, now Courtrai, ‘Settlement located at the Bend of the River’, the gallo roman settlement of the 1st century and crossroads of two main Roman roads. I went to primary school at Deerlijk, the Gallo-Roman settlement from the 2nd-3rd century originally called Thrasiliacas, which means, ‘Settlement belonging to Thrasilo’. However, the oldest traces of human settlements were found were stone tools from hunters and food collectors from the late Paleolithic, more specifically from the so-called Tjonger culture ca. 7000 BC. I Studied Latin Greek in the St. Jan Berchmans college in Avelgem.

I was physiotherapist in Roeselare. At the age of 7, I won the 1st prize out of 600 students in a drawing and painting competition. My grandfather, art academician, lived in an mansion, now classified. The walls where painted with Venetian Scenes and landscapes. My mother’s cousin founded the 1st art gallery in Waregem, named 'Da Vinci'. Almost every week my parents visited the modern gallery with their only son.