Stijn Peeters lives and works in Eindhoven (NL). His artistic practice includes since his beginnings at the Koninklijke Academie voor Kunst en vormgeving’s Hertogenbosch (NL) and the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht (NL) mainly drawing and writing. – To that he says: The movement made by my hand supports my thinking. I store information better and it helps with analyzing what I have seen and experience and to internalize it. A bit later painting joined in too, always being nevertheless closely related to the sign, with regard to its gesture. The artist aims to show the first beginnings as well as the most achieved details and distinct phases of creation in his canvases, so that the viewer is able to witness the „Werdegang“ of each painting.

Peeters’ works have so far been presented in various solo and group exhibitions, predominantly in the Netherlands. In 1992 he received the Philip Morris Preis. His works are among other part of the collections of the Museum van Bommel van Dam in Venlo and the van Abbe Museum Eindhoven.