John Meyer (born 13 August 1942 in Bloemfontein South Africa
) is a South African
painter
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...
.
He has exhibited extensively in South African and abroad specialising in landscapes and portraits (including portraits of Nobel laureates
Nelson Mandela
Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela (; ; 18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013) was a South African Internal resistance to apartheid, anti-apartheid activist who served as the President of South Africa, first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1 ...
and
FW De Klerk and concert pianist
Vladimir Horowitz) in a
photo-realist
Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media, in which an artist studies a photograph and then attempts to reproduce the image as realistically as possible in another medium. Although the term can be ...
style. More recently he describes his work as falling into what he terms a "narrative genre" where paintings are often part of a series (usually three to six) of chronological scenes.
He has exhibited at the Slater Memorial Museum (Connecticut) and the Everard Read Gallery (Johannesburg).
References
External links
Official siteBiography, Everard Read Gallery Cape Town
1942 births
South African painters
South African male painters
Living people
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