ESTEY
“Untitled” by David Estey.

Local Color is excited to welcome Belfast artist David Estey as their newest gallery member.

Estey is an improvisational painter and past president of the Union of Maine Visual Artists (UMVA). He taught himself to draw and paint while growing up in Fort Fairfield and attending Crosby High School in Belfast.

Estey earned a BFA degree in painting from Rhode Island School of Design, studied a year in Rome, and spent four years as an Army illustrator. He earned an MSA degree in public administration and had a federal career in public affairs, continuing to produce, exhibit, and teach art throughout his career and studying extensively at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Estey has had 26 solo shows (including one at Local Color) and well over 100 group and juried exhibits in Maine, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania.  His work is in private and organizational collections in 20 states and seven countries. He has produced over 11,000 pieces of art.

Estey says, “I hope my Maine roots and decades of study, experience and exploration are evident in a hard-won gravitas reflected in my work. My improvisations can be purely abstract but are often oddly narrative, sometimes inexplicable. I love that, because I want to be as surprised and intrigued as anyone else by what I make.”

Local Color Gallery is at 135 High St., Belfast. Learn more at localcolorgallerymaine.com.