Liz Prescott is a Maine painter whose process-driven works transform the working waterfront and rocky coastlines of New England into meditations on light, reflection, and the fleeting nature of what we see. Based in Freeport for more than two decades, Liz Prescott builds each painting in layers — letting her coastal subjects dissolve into abstraction and reform as something more personal than documentary.
Holding an MFA from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and a BFA from the Maine College of Art, her work is represented in the permanent collections of the Portland Museum of Art, Colby College, Bowdoin College, and the New York Public Library. Represented by Portland Art Gallery, Liz Prescott creates paintings that reward presence, patience, and repeated looking.
What does a painter who has spent decades staring at the same Maine harbors keep finding there — and what happens when the subject becomes paint itself?