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Born in Maastricht, Netherlands in 1957, Peter Bremers was interested in fashion, architecture, and design from a young age. It was not until his years at Art College that he developed a profound appreciation for three-dimensional art. While studying, he found a love for light and form, and started creating light-sculptures. After college he continued making his unique light sculptures and exhibited across Europe. His work was published in trendsetting design books and he would probably still make light-objects if he hadn’t happened to walk into a glassblowing workshop with Andries Copier at the Jan van Eyck Academy.

Mesmerized by the glowing light of hot glass at the end of a blowpipe, he began investigating the possibilities of blown glass for his objects and also did post-graduate studies at the Jan van Eyck Academy. In 1989, Bremers participated in a Lino Tagliapietra workshop in Amsterdam; Lino executed two of Bremers' designs, which were subsequently purchased by the Art Museum of the Hague. In the same year he went to work with master blower Neil Wilkin in England. They built a highly skilled team, producing many blown objects, often using the grail technique (glass made with one or more color overlays that are cooled, engraved, reheated, and encased in a layer of clear glass and blown again to expand the decorative engravings). Their partnership resulted in many successful exhibits as well as Bremers' first book, Metamorphosis.

Taking on public and private commissions, Bremers works with glass in an array of techniques, including blowing, casting, fusing, slumping, and laminating. The artist occasionally works in bronze, stone, aluminum, and chrome. In his own words: “There is one major reason why I love doing commissions. You can be asked to create something that you might not have done by your own choice. So, you are forced to think ‘outside the box’ and that can be incredibly challenging and… rewarding.”

Bremers was a guest artist and tutor at universities in Europe, Australia, South Africa, China, Turkey, and Japan. In his sculptures he shares his inner process, spiritual awareness, and life philosophy, all while presenting us a mirror, sometimes thought provoking or meditative but always reflecting a need for understanding and appreciating the individual as well as the universal.