LIZZIE ABELSON

A New England native, Lizzie was born (1971) and raised in Suffield, Connecticut. She went on from there to study painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, spending her junior year abroad with RISD’s European Honors Program. She currently lives in Boylston, Massachusetts.

Lizzie's artistic focus has shifted over the years from magazine illustration to figurative studies to botanical drawings to small, intimate, and resolutely unpeopled landscapes. Her most recent paintings depict spaces that feel at once familiar and foreign. She is drawn to liminal spaces, quiet colors, strong compositional elements, and balanced arrangements of perfect imperfections that invite the viewer in while also evoking a subtle sense of mystery, unease, or aloneness.