Steve Pratt was born into a farming community in 1950 in Zimbabwe. He spent the greater part of his life there in close association with the land as an artist and farmer until the turbulent social and political upheaval under the Mugabe dictatorship brought about his exile to the United Kingdom in 2003.

Although above all a painter, he is proficient in a number of disciplines including digital design and illustration, sculpture and woodcarving. He studied painting at the Rhodes University School of Art in South Africa under Brian Bradshaw, and there worked and exhibited with the Grahamstown Group - an association of artists under Bradshaw’s mentorship concerned particularly with landscape, and committed to integrity and excellence in painting.

“As a landscape painter, I see the landscape as a living thing with a pulse, a history, a memory and a soul. Its ancient rhythms, raw structure and transient monuments to human endeavour are rich with associations that are a reflection of ourselves. Exhilaration, pain, yearning, dread, nostalgia and hope. Landscape is the outward expression of the landscape
within.”

He has exhibited in national and group exhibitions in major centres in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and has held numerous solo exhibitions in Zimbabwe. His work is represented in the public collection of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.

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