Liz Prescott is a Maine painter whose work is rooted in process, color, and her deep connection to the coastal landscape. Based in Freeport for nearly three decades, Liz draws inspiration from the reflections of boats and buildings along the Portland working waterfront, as well as the ever-changing light over Maine’s rocky shoreline. These motifs allow her to straddle the line between abstraction and representation—balancing intuitive play with formal concerns like shape, space, and color theory. Liz describes her practice as a continual evolution: “You cannot rush a good thing,” she says. “Whatever the medium—painting, music, writing, designing a garden—layers build upon each other, ideas develop, information is taken away, covered over, added to again, and the art evolves.” A graduate of Maine College of Art (BFA, 2000) and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA, 2003), Liz is a lifelong learner and educator. She teaches plein air workshops in visually rich coastal locales like Monhegan Island and the Schoodic Peninsula at Acadia. Though she often paints outdoors, she considers herself a studio painter at heart—using plein air work as a source of material and inspiration rather than finished product. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Portland Museum of Art, Bowdoin and Colby Colleges, the New York Public Library, and the University of New England. Liz is a founding member of Meetinghouse Arts in Freeport, where she remains an active member of the gallery committee. To hear Liz reflect on the emotional resonance of light, her reverence for process, and the joy of teaching, watch her full interview on Radio Maine.