Rita is from Eliot, Maine. She started painting as an adult in 2012 after receiving her father’s old pochade box. Rita writes: After inheriting my father’s pochade box, I felt led to take painting classes. I had never painted before. I first started with the very patient and talented Sean Beavers at Sanctuary Arts, in Eliot. We started with gray scale and color charts. It was a whole new world for me. Step-by-step and sometimes painful—I was intrigued. When we went outside en