Pratt creates rich, layered, dreamlike experiences, drenched in color and mood. A large number of personally created photographs are used as paint brushes, woven in complicated layered aggregates, each affecting others, until most of the details blend into the whole. Pratt encourages the wild pixels and visual artifacts that result to be part of the art, like Impressionists proudly let their brush strokes show. This process emerged from years of training and experience in award-winning graphic design and abstract expressionism. They gravitate toward the dramatic interplay of light on cloud formations, mountains, trees, plants, rocks, and ripples on water. Pratt’s art often weaves global warming, women’s equality, and interpersonal drama into the art. Sometimes the meaning takes a hard turn or a playful spin, following the creative lead till it clicks. The process is very immersive and meditative. Pratt craves the complexity that arises from this technique: The work is dreamlike, a world of shapes and colors to get lost in. Pratt has been combining photographic imagery for design clients for years; a series of these images is in the Smithsonian collection. Through abstract art, Pratt embraces the happy accident. The abstract arises, sometimes unbidden, from the concrete. Pratt’s art gives you a place to connect with something in your subconscious that will bubble to the surface. With different environments and audiences the art strikes different chords.

A creator all their life. Trained at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Art and Architecture. Studied for years with artist Lois Tarlow. Pratt has won many national and international design awards. Has taught at Massachusetts College of Art and The Art Institute of Boston, and judged award shows, 

Take a moment, dive in, let the art take your mind somewhere.