{"id":117516,"date":"2015-06-04T09:14:23","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=117516"},"modified":"2015-06-04T09:14:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:14:23","slug":"allan-pratt-to-open-his-solo-art-exhibition-entitled-his-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2015\/06\/allan-pratt-to-open-his-solo-art-exhibition-entitled-his-story","title":{"rendered":"Allan Pratt To Open His Solo Art Exhibition Entitled &#8216;His-Story&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-117517\" alt=\"allan-pratt\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allan-pratt.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allan-pratt.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allan-pratt-150x88.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allan-pratt-250x147.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Allan Pratt, born on the beautiful island of New Providence, is a self-taught Bahamian Artist.\u00a0 At a very early age, he studied the works of well-known Bahamian artists such as Eddie Minnis, Brent Malone and Chan Pratt.\u00a0 After achieving a Special Credit in his G.C.E. \u2018A\u2019 Level Art in high school, he put his art aside to pursue a career as a Pastry Chef.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-117518\" alt=\"allan-pratt-doongalik\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allan-pratt-doongalik.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"425\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allan-pratt-doongalik.jpg 275w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allan-pratt-doongalik-97x150.jpg 97w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/allan-pratt-doongalik-161x250.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" \/>During this time, he displayed his God given artistic talents in his Ice and Fruit Carvings and also in his Chocolate, Bread and Pastillage show pieces.\u00a0 Although he has propelled himself to become one of the country\u2019s best Pastry Chefs, he has never lost his unwavering love for art.<\/p>\n<p>Allan will open his solo art exhibition entitled \u201cHIS-STORY\u201d at 6pm on Wednesday, June 10 at Doongalik Studios Art Gallery on Village Road. The exhibition will feature paintings of well-known historic buildings and street scenes as well as charcoal drawings depicting \u2018the family\u2019.\u00a0 The title of the show and the artworks were chosen to remind us, as a nation, from \u2018whence we came\u2019.\u00a0 Allan desire through his art is to encourage us to return to those more peaceful times when we were \u201cour brother\u2019s keeper\u201d so that we might heal as a nation in light of the crime situation in our country today.<\/p>\n<p>Allan works predominantly with oil paint which allows him the freedom to blend and mesh colors to achieve his desired results.\u00a0 Recently, however, clients have been requesting charcoal portrait drawings and paintings. His art can be found in the private collection of several prominent Bahamian Collectors and also private clients in Orlando and Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>Allan\u2019s goal as an artist is for all those who acquire a piece of his artwork to have their own piece of \u201cBahamian History\u201d &#8211; therefore he does not make any prints, duplicates or giclee reproductions.\u00a0 When Allan says, \u201cyou have obtained a piece of my art\u201d, he ensures that it is truly an original just for you.\u00a0 Each art piece also has its own Certificate of Authenticity signed by the artist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis-story\u201d will be on display until Saturday, July 4. Gallery hours are Monday to Wednesday from 10am to 4pm. For further information contact the gallery at doongalikart@batelnet.bs or telephone 394-1886.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Allan will open his solo art exhibition entitled \u201cHIS-STORY\u201d at 6pm on Wednesday, June 10 at Doongalik Studios Art Gallery on Village Road. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":117517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[204,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}