Dutch artist Peter Bremers was born in 1957 in Maastricht, The Netherlands, where he studied sculpture at the University of Fine Arts and three-dimensional design at the Jan van Eyck Academia. Searching for suitable ways of realizing his artistic ideas, he at first worked with a wide range of materials including glass, plastic, steel and stone. In 1989, he attended a course given by Lino Tagliapietra in Amsterdam, but the strongest impetus to turn to glass as his ideal material had come three years earlier, during a workshop by the senior Dutch glass artist A.D. Copier. In his works Icebergs & Paraphernalia, Bremers uses undulating wave-like shapes, along with angular holes and arches to evoke a combination of ice and fire, light and color. He recreates in glass the openings and fissures in the glaciers, together with the unfathomable depths of the ice.