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Talking Art in Maine – David Estey
August 22
7 PM
Lincoln Theater is thrilled to announce the return of the beloved program – Talking Art in Maine, with new host, Emily Sabino!
Talking Art in Maine is a series of live, one on one conversations between Host, Emily Sabino, and notable Artists and Curators who have made a substantial contribution to the arts in the state of Maine. All events in the Talking Art in Maine series are offered free to the public.
David Estey is an improvisational painter in Belfast, Maine. He was born in 1942 at Fort Fairfield, in northern Maine, into a family of laborers and storytellers. He grew up surrounded by nature. With no art in school, he taught himself to draw and paint, depicting hundreds of animals and people he imagined or found in books, magazines and movies.
He excelled in school and completed a BFA degree in painting from Rhode Island School of Design, a year of study in Rome and a month of hitchhiking around Europe. He was drafted into the army and spent four years as an illustrator at Ft. Meade, MD. He earned a masters degree from George Washington University and had a federal career in public affairs. He also practiced, studied and taught art, including 14 years of figure studies at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and workshops with prominent artists in three states. He explored many major museums in Europe and the U.S. He married a woman from Vienna, Austria and raised a son and daughter, then divorced and married a childhood classmate.
In 1995 he retired from government and began to exhibit successfully in PA, NC and Maine. He has been in 24 solo shows and over 100 group and juried exhibits. His work is in private and organizational collections in 20 states and seven countries. He has produced over 10,800 pieces of art.
His Maine roots and extensive study and experience beyond have earned the hard-won gravitas reflected in his work.
Emily Sabino is an abstract representational painter in Midcoast Maine. “Sabino revels in Nature, especially the power of seeds to bring hope and renewal. As a musician and drummer who brings the healing power of rhythm to her creative work, she feels the weaving together of rain, earth, growth, death, rebirth in an unending complementary cycle with the human condition,” writes Alan Crichton, in his review of her recent exhibit, “You Are Never Alone” at Waterfall Arts in Belfast. Her work has been exhibited in galleries across Maine and she is a Board Member of the Union of Maine Visual Artists, co-curating several exhibitions in 2024/2025.
All events in Lincoln Theater’s Talking Art in Maine 2024-25 series are generously supported by
Damariscotta Hardware, The Damariscotta River Grill, Hammond Lumber, The Knickerbocker Group
Talking Art in Maine is a free series
No advance reservations are required to attend