Mary Frances Pratt (née West) (born 1935 in Fredericton, New Brunswick) is a Canadian painter specializing in still life paintings. She attended Mount Allison University, graduating in 1961. She met her future husband, the artist Christopher Pratt, at Mount Allison. After the marriage, she moved with him to Newfoundland.
Her first solo exhibition was held at the Memorial University Art Gallery in Newfoundland in 1967. In 1996, she was named Companion of the Order of Canada.
Her works include:
The Back Porch (http://www.heritage.nf.ca/arts/agnl/prints/0464bio.html) (1966)
Mary was influenced by the rectitude of her father, William John West, a prominent lawyer who later became attorney general and justice of the Supreme Court of New Brunswick.
MaryPratt has been described as a visual poet of femaleness, dealing not only with traditional female things like fruit, fish, flowers and affection, but also with the darker, more complex emotions of pain, lust, anger and jealousy.
-- "Maria Kubacki in conversation with MaryPratt".
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