Prissie Pratt is an artist of rare consistency, in that her subject has never once wavered. It is herself: studied, staged, doubted, corrected, and returned to with a frequency that suggests both discipline and mild obsession. We meet at Onyx coffee which might be the greatest coffee I've ever had - and I'm in Arkansas.

Her paintings and mixed-media works occupy that precarious space between glamour and grievance. Pratt appears somewhat unhinged, less as a narcissistic exercise than as an ongoing negotiation with her reflection. I question if she is not merely looking at herself, but checking to see whether she is still being looked at - all the time in fact - our 3 lattes proves this theory as she perseverates on her reflection in the shops' window.

Formally, she draws from the expected sources. In her exact words: "London art school theory, TikTok aesthetics, and the low-grade hysteria of contemporary cultural art-show life is my inspiration." What distinguishes the work is not originality of reference, but insistence. The images are meticulously constructed, faintly exhausted, and entirely aware of both facts.

Pratt's studio habits are, by contrast, strangely domestic. She begins most mornings with soft scrambled eggs and Marmite, an iced coffee diluted to near uselessness, and a slice of toast she rarely finishes. This routine, she insists, is coincidental. It clearly is not. She dislikes working past mid-afternoon, is suspicious of artists who claim to enjoy early mornings, and considers minor irritation a legitimate research tool.

Critics have labelled her self-obsessed work "as interesting," two words she oddly obsesses over- like a bee returning to the same flower after the nectar is clearly drained. Mildly accurate. The work amuses those who sit with the narrative. The obsession is not with self-admiration, but with self-maintenance: how one remains coherent, visible, and relevant while perpetually on display.

Prissie Pratt eats her breakfast in Bentonville.

xoHenri Vausselin, Art Critic and Cigar Connoisseur