Maurice Meyer was born in 1936 in Memphis, Tennessee. There, he started his training and career in art at the mere age of ten when his first works were exhibited in the local museum. Later, after completing his university studies and a term in the Air Force, Meyer moved to southern California where he continues to reside with his family.

The artist has studied sea and landscape painting intensively and has gradually developed his own style, characterized by natural hues that impart to his subjects a profound sense of reality. It is for this startling and unusual realism that Meyer is now touted at one of America’s leading artists. Concerning his education as an artist, Meyer cites Rembrandt, Thomas Moran and Albert Bierstadt as being most inspirational for him.

Meyer realized the importance that high-lights, contrasted by dark, yet complimentary, colors, play when he first viewed the works of Rembrandt at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. And since then, Meyer has striven to adhere to the same lighting technique used by the great Dutch master – so much so, in fact, that he is now known as the "Rembrandt of seascapes". By painting the ocean during three fundamental periods – morning and early afternoon, sunset and the moon at night, Meyer varies the hues prevalent in his paintings.