Biography

After working life as Associate Professor of Obstetrics in Nijmegen, Peter moved to Friesland to further expand his activities as a visual artist and writer in the tranquility of the Frisian ‘Greidhoeke’.

Visual arts:

He has been active in the visual arts since the 1970s. Initially mainly drawing and painting. Soon there was also work in bronze and other materials.
The images are often characterized by long shapes, in order to accentuate the intended emotion. They are, as it were, ‘bronze drawings in space’.
Light, airy, thin, slender, graceful are the keywords that apply to much of his work.

Peter patinas and embosss the sculptures himself and also makes the moulds, allowing him to operate independently (except for the casting) and to control almost the entire artistic and craft process himself.

Some time later he also started making objects from old iron, sometimes in combination with other materials, such as glass.

In addition to the Netherlands, work was sold to: Belgium, Germany, Spain, France, Australia, Israël, Austria, Ireland, The United States and New Zealand.

Writing

Peter started writing short stories, which appeared in short story collections and in the newspapers NRC, Vrij Nederland and Trouw, among others. Books were added later. First with small publishers. Since 2013, he has been an author at the Meulenhoff-Boekerij publisher in Amsterdam