p a s t   r e v i e w s   ( e x c e r p t s ) :

"he is widely celebrated as possibly the finest painter of distinctly South African landscapes that this country has yet produced."
- Ivor Powell, 'The Sunday Times'


"He conveys the sense that something simultaneously physical and psychological is being revealed: that this is how it is, not just how the artist sees it."
- Ivor Powell, 'The Weekly Mail'


"in his understated way, he depicts a painful psychological reality that his forbearers tried so hard to hide."
- Hazel Friedman, 'Ventilator'


"Whereas Pierneef's work bolstered the master-narrative of Afrikaner Nationalism, Meyer's mirrors the fracturing of that narrative..."
"The quality of light in most works borders on perfection."
- Lize van der Watt, 'Vuka'


"The paintings of Walter Meyer are deeply entrenched in the South African reality."
- Lucia Burger, 'Beeld'


"One would be able to call him a kindred spirit of Van Gogh in the way he often uses the landscape as a medium to express psychological tensions and energies."
- Johannes Bruwer, 'Insig'


"These paintings are extraordinarily truthful, not merely to a catalogue of factual detail, but to profoundly experienced reality. Collectively they speak of the
integrity of the artist's purpose."
- Ruth Jacobsen, 'Business Day'


"Seldom there was such excitement amongst Capetonians who are in the know about art affairs, as about the "underground" first solo exhibition in the Mother City by the painter Walter Meyer. His art has, for various reasons,
begun to achieve a cult status"
- M. A. Nolte, 'Die Burger'


"One enters a dreamworld where reality is a merely a shadow of the real wold"
- Die Perdeby, official newspaper of the University of Pretoria