Pris studied visual arts at the William de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. She graduated in 1998 with a bachelors degree in Arts and Education. After a few years of traveling back and forth  she moved to London, UK in 2005, where she lived for a few years. Following her heart, she moved to the Caribbean, but decided to come back to  Europe early 2010. 

Looking at the world as a global citizen, she observed how art can change lives and its contribution to societies.  Driven by a sense of urgency due to the current state of society, she took up teaching to support lives turning for the better.  It was when she was teaching art in a prison, when she witnessed the  true power of the arts. Intrigued, she studied how the arts can influence social and cognitive development in adult learners at the Hogeschool of Utrecht*.  

Pris has featured in several art exhibits worldwide. Her artwork is owned by art collectors all over the globe. 

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*How the arts affect behaviour: executive functions and the arts 
Pecha Kucha presentation at the 7th Teachers' Academy of the European League of Institutes of the Arts - 'From another point of view'

Executive functions are a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one's resources in order to achieve a goal. It's an umbrella term for the neurologically-based skills involving mental control and self-regulation. (Cooper-Kahn and Dietzell, 2008)

The Pecha Kucha presentation lays out the operatives that effectively worked, to target executive functions through art education on students who have been found guilty of violence, drugs abuse, racism and worse.

Through art projects, they learned to themselves as human beings, and found new values to appreciate both within themselves, as well as  in others.

By targeting executive functions to create the best piece of art possible, human values are restored.