John Christopher Maxwell Pratt [December 9, 1935 – June 5, 2022]

June 2022

 

Here’s the wonderful obituary by Mireille Eagan, published in The Globe and Mail:

PAINTER CAPTURED THE RUGGED NATURE OF HIS BELOVED NEWFOUNDLAND

Driving to Venus: A Long and Winding Road

(Images: After the Cold War, Driving to Venus – A Long and Winding Road, courtesy Emma Butler Gallery)

Inis Oírr iii

BY Heather Nolan

when the ferry gets in island folks line up along the dock offering tours in the family car faces eroded by the rain. horses wait hitched to carriages. every hour…