David Estey is an award-winning painter/printmaker who has taught and exhibited widely in Maine, the Mid-Atlantic States and in North Carolina. His work includes paintings and prints in a wide variety of styles and media, as well as an abundance of strong, expressive figure drawings in charcoal. David earned a BFA degree in painting from Rhode Island School of Design in 1964 and a MSA degree in public administration from George Washington University in 1976. He studied painting a year in Rome, Italy, extensively at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, ME. After illustrating for the U.S. Army and a career in public affairs with IRS in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Washington, he returned with his wife Karen to live and work in Belfast, Maine.