Ton Pret

Ton Pret Bio 2025
Ton Pret is a Dutch self-taught artist, who does not follow the masses and is not guided by styles or trends, but simply follows his own course and this results in his colorful and unique style: The Pret Style! Ton translates the reality of everyday life into the reality of his inexhaustible imagination and does this with great passion, which you can feel by seeing.
Ton also believes that his art should be accessible and understandable to everyone, whereby it should stimulate people's imagination. Everyone can and may see something different in it. In this way, both light-hearted subjects and heavy subjects are translated into something that everyone can understand.
Ton does not limit himself to just paintings, but has also transformed various special objects by hand into art objects, such as the Ton Pret Ferrari Art Car that is now driving around in New York, but also various art shoes and bags, such as the Louis Vuitton art bag and also design, which was even on display during the Milan Design Week and in the Triennale di Milano Design Museum.
Ton's work has also been on display in various other museums such as the Louvre, Museum de Kunsthal, the Dutch Shoe Museum and on June 17-06-2025, his solo exhibition star...

Ton Pret CV 2025

“Dare to be different”
In 2005, at the age of 46, Ton decided to follow his dream. As a partner in a successful insurance company, he left the company and said “I’m going to be an artist”. Everyone thought he had gone crazy, only his wife said “follow your dream” and that was enough for Ton. Ton also said “I’d rather it failed than not try”.
As mentioned in the bio, Ton did not attend an art academy, but is self-taught. In fact, as a child he was already fanatically busy drawing and coloring his fantasies, but his artistic creations were not appreciated at school. How special that his work is now highly appreciated, enjoyed and embraced by collectors and even museums.
People try to name his style and often end up with the well-known COBRA art style, by famous artists such as Karel Appel and Corneille. Erik Hermida, an influential man in the world of art, calls Ton a “new exponent of COBRA”. A major Dutch collector -Gerard Meulensteen- calls Ton his work “COBRA of the 21st century and a major Slovak collector –Ivan Melichercik- samples Ton his work as “New COBRA”. Ton himself says always “I am a realistic artist, but from another reality” and I just follow my “Pret Style”.
Ton quickly became well-known in the wor...

Solo exhibition "Follow your Dreaum" at the wonderful Danubiana Museum in Bratislava, Slovakia. 17-06-2025 / 01-09-2025 More info at tonpret*com