Statement

My paintings are a slow burn, an escape from a fast paced, digital world, expressing a more elemental connection with the sun, moon, stars, water, plants, trees and all living things. My aim is to capture a slice of the earth magic and expanded perspective that is available to all when listening to the natural world.  I am inspired by mystical lyrics from timeless troubadour songs, where meaning changes and unfolds slowly after repeated listenings. My favorite time to paint is in the early morning, just after sunrise, when there is good natural light and I can best translate quiet subconscious impressions from the darkness via my hands into healing and hopeful future scenes. 

Bio

Emily Sabino is an abstract representational painter in Midcoast Maine. “Sabino revels in Nature, especially the power of seeds to bring hope and renewal. She feels sentience in the natural world and feels surrounded by an intelligence with which we can be in constant celebratory communication. 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 2024 exhibit, “You Are Never Alone” at Waterfall Arts in Belfast. In addition to painting, she is the host of Talking Art in Maine, at The Lincoln Theater in Damariscotta, where she interviews artists and curators who have made a notable contribution to the arts in Maine.  Emily’s work has been exhibited in Galleries across Maine and she is a Board member of the Union of Maine Visual Artists.