Peter Liew is regarded the ‘Poet of the Panorama,’ travelling all over the world to capture the ‘local’ colours, spirit, ‘taste’ (atmosphere) and terrain. He paints alfresco in oils with palette knife, with instinctive and clever manupulations in bringing out the essence of more than just the physical. This work was done in Dunedin in the South Island when on a trip with fellow artists Alex Ong and Teh Yew Kiang to New Zealand in 1996. He painted seven works in two weeks there. After receiving a Diploma in Fine Art in 1979 at the Malaysian Institute of Art, Peter Liew taught there in 1981-94.