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I like painting because viewers of paintings are willing to pause, to still look closely at paintings and find memories, aspirations, and meanings.
In summer 2019, I began painting in acrylics. Mostly I paint places where I would like to be - the Grand Canyon, the deserts, prairies and mountains of the West. Partly I paint because I love the textures, designs and colors of those experiences and feelings. I paint abstracts because those, too, can elicit unexpected emotion.
I am inspired by diverse artists: Clyde Aspevig, Damien Hirst, Joan Mitchell, Caravaggio, Matthew Higgenbotham, John Constable, Hiroshi Senju, Thomas Moran, Gerhard Richter, Monet, Utagawa Hiroshige, Gustav Vigeland.
I usually paint from black-and-white prints of my own photographs, or my own memories. Since I am partly color-blind, I do better arranging my own colors from memories than trying to match colors in a realistic color photo.
I began serious photography in 2004. But, in the past decade, most photography has become disposable entertainment - discarded as quickly as the empty plastic straw grabbed at a fast food joint. Smart phone cameras brought a flood of fun, quirky or happy memory instants that anyone can easily capture. That's great, yet with no more meaning than the flutter of a falling autumn leaf.! Paintings, on the other hand, seem more often to elicit deeper currents and challenging eddies.
I see things differently. I invite viewers to join in the enduring beauty of things that are hard to see - things that enunciate only in certain light, entice with their design and intrigue with pattern. I made difficult photographs of wildflowers, special lightings, fleeting instants, and tiny things.
In my prior scientific career, my goal was to help data researchers visualize patterns that they had never seen before. My goals in painting and photography are similar - to see and communicate things in new perspectives.
About the Artist
Kevin B. Pratt's work is in the permanent collection at Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, Colorado and has been shown in galleries in Flagstaff, Tucson and Albuquerque. He has spoken on imaging techniques in Australia, Canada and the US.
Kevin has been taking art and photography classes on-and-off since grade school. He began taking photos seriously when high resolution digital photography became available. He uses a Sony A6300 camera. He paints with professional Liquitex acrylics.
His first career was as a commercial and natural resources trial and appeals lawyer. His second career is computer application of artificial intelligence to very large data. He is chief scientist at ZZAlpha Ltd. He hasn't discovered his third career yet.
I like painting because viewers of paintings are willing to pause, to still look closely at paintings and find memories, aspirations, and meanings.
In summer 2019, I began painting in acrylics. Mostly I paint places where I would like to be - the Grand Canyon, the deserts, prairies and mountains of the West. Partly I paint because I love the textures, designs and colors of those experiences and feelings. I paint abstracts because those, too, can elicit unexpected emotion.
I am inspired by diverse artists: Clyde Aspevig, Damien Hirst, Joan Mitchell, Caravaggio, Matthew Higgenbotham, John Constable, Hiroshi Senju, Thomas Moran, Gerhard Richter, Monet, Utagawa Hiroshige, Gustav Vigeland.
I usually paint from black-and-white prints of my own photographs, or my own memories. Since I am partly color-blind, I do better arranging my own colors from memories than trying to match colors in a realistic color photo.
I began serious photography in 2004. But, in the past decade, most photography has become disposable entertainment - discarded as quickly as the empty plastic straw grabbed at a fast food joint. Smart phone cameras brought a flood of fun, quirky or happy memory instants that anyone can easily capture. That's great, yet with no more meaning than the flutter of a falling autumn leaf.! Paintings, on the other hand, seem more often to elicit deeper currents and challenging eddies.
I see things differently. I invite viewers to join in the enduring beauty of things that are hard to see - things that enunciate only in certain light, entice with their design and intrigue with pattern. I made difficult photographs of wildflowers, special lightings, fleeting instants, and tiny things.
In my prior scientific career, my goal was to help data researchers visualize patterns that they had never seen before. My goals in painting and photography are similar - to see and communicate things in new perspectives.
About the Artist
Kevin B. Pratt's work is in the permanent collection at Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, Colorado and has been shown in galleries in Flagstaff, Tucson and Albuquerque. He has spoken on imaging techniques in Australia, Canada and the US.
Kevin has been taking art and photography classes on-and-off since grade school. He began taking photos seriously when high resolution digital photography became available. He uses a Sony A6300 camera. He paints with professional Liquitex acrylics.
His first career was as a commercial and natural resources trial and appeals lawyer. His second career is computer application of artificial intelligence to very large data. He is chief scientist at ZZAlpha Ltd. He hasn't discovered his third career yet.