JOHN MEYER
JOHN MEYER, Waorani (Amazon)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Humpback Haven (Antarctica)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Kilimanjaro (Kenya)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Hanging Glacier (Patagonia)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Our Blue Planet
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Aurora (Arctic Circle)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Sphinx (Egypt)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Flight of the Albatross
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Ganga (India)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Cape Kelp Forest (South Africa)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Western Sentinels (USA)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, South Seas (Bora Bora)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Li Jiang (China)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, A Venetian Summer (Italy)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Sarawak (Borneo)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Fjord Legends (Norway)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Reef
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Buzzards (Colorado River, USA)
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 230 cm
JOHN MEYER, Towards Tuli
Oil on canvas, 100 x 135 cm
Widely regarded as the leading figure in the realist movement in southern Africa, John Meyer’s love of paint is at the heart of his enduring prominence as an artist. The magical properties of paint and his ability to conjure nuance with it – the way the light falls on a landscape and the branches of a singular baobab tree, illuminating and spotlighting our mysterious world – is at the heart of his preoccupation with painting. This has haunted, inspired, and propelled him as an artist for nearly 50 years.
While Meyer’s concerns appear to be about presenting reality, it is his preoccupation with manifesting his imagination as reality, that has won out. Many of his landscapes do not exist, however intimately we feel we know them. This is his genius. They present his and our memory of landscape, and how it feels – or might feel – to be in these places.
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Photo credit: Michael Hall
Specialists in contemporary art from South Africa. Established in 1913. South African artists are part of the global conversation. We seek to make their voices heard.