Born in Harderwijk, Netherlands in 1980, Peter Riezebos is a Neoexpressionist artist who excels at expressing an inner spiritual world with fast moving lines and bright colors. Influenced by CoBrA artist Karel Appel (1921-2006), he enjoys improvisation, capturing the main essence of objects with just a few strokes, which also makes his works highly recognizable. In collaboration with Netherlands' PostNL in 2017, Riezebos's unique figurative techniques are showcased on memorial stamps depicting historical figures on the Dutch guilder. He transformed lines and color chunks into individual components, and assembled various images of historical characters together. Repetitive lines and colors in the drawing framed by white colored outlines seem to enliven each figure by saturating them with vitality. In addition to object lucidity, viewers are often immersed in the emotion of his art of distinctive lines and colors. As a result, Riezebos is often linked to the abstract expressionist,Willem de Kooning (1904-1997). As of 2020, Riezebos has held solo exhibitions in Shanghai, the Netherlands, New York and Los Angeles, and his works are favored by collectors around the world.