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 it so much
easier than photography. I paint in acrylics because it is easy to fix my screw-ups. Partly I like painting because viewers of paintings
still look closely at paintings and expect memories, aspirations, meaning.
I usually paint from black-and-white prints of my own photographs. 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.!
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 make 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 goal in photography is similar - to see and communicate things in new perspectives.
About the Artist
Kevin B. Pratt's photographic 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 currently uses a Sony A6300 camera.
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 usually paint from black-and-white prints of my own photographs. 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.!
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 make 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 goal in photography is similar - to see and communicate things in new perspectives.
About the Artist
Kevin B. Pratt's photographic 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 currently uses a Sony A6300 camera.
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.