Edge Of The Hexrivierberge ,
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Notes : John Meyer’s reputation as South Africa’s most renowned and significant realist painter is unimpeachable. He has exhibited all over the world, and is regarded as a modern–day ‘court painter’, commissioned to paint many official subjects and occasion works in the upper echelons of global society. His immaculately composed painted narratives, either in the vignette and cinematic form he has favoured more recently, or in the grand historical narratives he has also depicted in many well-known canvases, can sometimes belie the skill and talent with which all his work is imbued.This majestic landscape work, of one of South Africa’s most beautiful Cape vistas, bears all the hallmarks of the painterly photorealism for which his work is celebrated. However, this work also offers an opportunity to examine, from a more aesthetic perspective, and unencumbered by the narrative considerations which surface in his historical subjects and portraiture, exactly how he goes about his craft. A justifiable reputation as a master craftsman is here exemplified by subtly subdued texture, colour, brushstroke and composition in a beautiful example of a work that dramatically conveys the gravitas and immense volume of the natural landscape it depicts, with its indications of human cultivation and civilisation in the foreground relatively diminished by the majestic mountains in the background.
James Sey
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