An outdoor painter, Peter Liew captures the beauty of nature through his thick impasto technique. An avid traveller, he has painted a plethora of landscapes from various locations from Batu Caves, Ipoh, Taman Negara, Penang Hill and Tapah right to the outskirts of Paris, upstate New York vineyards, Venice waterways and rustic scenes in Prague, Czech Republic. Peter Liew graduated from the Malaysian Institute of Art in 1979. He was awarded Best Student in 1978. He taught at his alma mater from 1981 to 1994. He has presented several solo shows since his first at Art House Gallery, Kuala Lumpur in 1981. In 2018, he presented the Peter Liew Retrospective exhibition, which featured 63 works, arranged in three themes: Nature, Cultural Heritage, and Portraits. It was held at the Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM) exhibition space in Wisma Kebudayaan SGM, Kuala Lumpur. During the same time, he showcased a solo exhibition titled Peter Liew: The Face at the Creative Space, National Art Gallery Malaysia from July 30 until August 28, 2018.