Notes

John Meyer is one of South Africa’s leading contemporary realists. Meyer has put his indelible stamp on the genres of landscape, portraiture and narrative art.

“The light began to dim towards dusk as I arrived. Frogs had started to take over from the calls of daytime water- birds. For some reason that moment has clearly lingered in my brain for decades, resulting in a series of images that have subtly altered in style with the maturation of my painting over the years. Pristine, unpolluted water supporting a raft of water lilies; it’s almost too conventionally pretty to paint. What fascinates me is that this lovely stretch of water is surrounded by a wilderness tense with the presence of mega-herbivores and carnivores. Just another stretch of wetland in the Okavango.”