Peter Schuijren (1944–2006) sculptor and painter was born in Mechelen, in the famous, paradise-like and unspoiled Dutch-Limburg countryside.

In the sixties his great creative ability and his passionate artistic enthusiasm were expressed mainly in drawings and paintings. In 1969 he started to express his natural feeling for forms and his plastic sensitivity in remarkable, accurate, fast drafts in plastic of playing children.

In 1974, after having finished his education as a sculptor at the Maastricht City academy under the supervision of the sculptor Piet Killaars, and at the Jan van Eyck academy in Maastricht under supervision of Arthur Sproncken, Schuijren had his first solo exhibition. Here his qualities and artistic characteristics were already noticeable, which would continue to unmistakably determine his further work. A tense elementary monumentality with archetypes as a starting point, and an atmospheric associative emotive force, coupled with an interesting hidden sensitivity.

One is struck by a fascinating and inspiring solidarity with nature and the poetic world in which he lived.

During the Kunst10daagse in Bergen (NH) an important part of his work – which was exhibited earlier in America and England,  was presented in the garden of “Het Oude Hof”.