Born in Bloemfontein on August 13, 1942, spent his early formative years in Klerksdorp, a small mining town west of Johannesburg Highveld in what is now the province of Gauteng.
From 1967 to 1969, Meyer worked as an illustrator in London, where he freelanced for magazines like Readers Digest and newspapers such as The Times and The Telegraph, as well as for various advertising agencies in t
Born in Bloemfontein on August 13, 1942, spent his early formative years in Klerksdorp, a small mining town west of Johannesburg Highveld in what is now the province of Gauteng.
From 1967 to 1969, Meyer worked as an illustrator in London, where he freelanced for magazines like Readers Digest and newspapers such as The Times and The Telegraph, as well as for various advertising agencies in the UK. He moved to South Africa in 1969, where he became the country of the first full-time illustrator specializing in the service of the advertising industry.
She has exhibited in various galleries in the United States and the United Kingdom since 1978 and lives with his wife Elaine and two children in Lake Tahoe, Nevada, from 1984 to 1986.Since his first one-man show in 1972, Meyer has been a full-time painter in South Africa, where it is considered by many as the leading and most influential artist in the tradition realistic. Meyer, lives and works in Cape Town.
"Like a skilled novelist who uses the imaginary narrative highlighting an intense psychological realism that speaks of the intimacy and distance."
Brett Hilton-Barber, John Meyer: Sequential Narratives John Meyer is out of Postmodernism, but it appears in. He drew his inspiration from contemporary culture, but it makes its case.
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