Priscilla Coote has been mesmerized by the water for her entire life. There are family tales of their near-capsizing during a sudden squall when she was an infant. And so began her love affair with water.

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Priscilla has been called a Tonalist in a Colorist world. A New Englander by birth, she has spent nearly thirty years in the Florida Keys, with its blinding sunlight and saturated hues. She has found reconciliation between these polar opposites of imagery into her own style only after years of diligently painting en plein air in both North and South, and then carrying her inspirations into the studio. She has made a lifelong study of how the placement and intensity of light and dark areas within a painting create its mood and atmosphere. In addition, she is a serious student of the anatomy of water itself, delighting in how the careful rendering of even a mere ripple can make a successful painting.

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Three of her large oil paintings have been chosen to hang in the residence of the American Ambassador to the United Nations, New York City. She has been juried into national exhibitions across the country includiing museums in Oxnard CA, Coos Bay WA and Mystic CT; as well as the Visual Arts Center's Biennial.

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She is a Signature Member of the American Society of Marine Artists and its immediate past Vice President. She is represented in galleries in Key West, Maine, Nantucket and Nantes, France.