On October 24, 2024, at 7PM, Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, Maine, will be welcoming artist Maureen Egan to the stage for Talking Art in Maine, hosted by Artist 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.
Maureen Egan’s reverent and heartfelt paintings act as visual talismans, expressing a healing connection with and appreciation of life lessons, cycles of life, and the awe-inspiring beauty of the natural world. Egan, at heart, is a storyteller, where reality and the imaginal worlds are often combined; her deft use of color and archetypal imagery creates resonant images that spark an uplifting inner response.
Always looking to explore a theme, Egan has extolled the magnificence of the Wind River mountains in Wyoming; created visualizations of chakras (energy centers within the human body); depicted her own healing journey through breast cancer in the celebrated autobiographical book, The Light From Here, published in 2016; and paid homage to the natural beauty of her chosen home state of Maine.
For the past 18 years, Egan has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions across the state of Maine, with the view that “when the painting finds its owner, a match is made.” To keep her work accessible to a broader audience, she also offers note cards and giclée prints of her paintings at a variety of locations in and around the midcoast.
Prior to her painting career, Egan was an illustrator for Downeast magazine as well as Enrollment Director for the Ashwood Waldorf school in Rockport.
“My artistic practice has taught me that an image and especially color and light can truly help a person feel a comforting or empowering shift. Initially that person is me and I often turn to imagery when I am lost or troubled by a situation. When creating a scene, I listen to the painting, allowing it to evolve and guide me into the feelings that I may not have words for, but which are safely expressed—and lifted—into the beauty of the colors and forms that manifest on the canvas.”
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.