Hi, I'm Cynthia Palmer
I now live in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for most of each year and on a trawler in the Pacific Northwest for about 4 months each summer. Although I make the occasional private sale, I’m most interested in using painting to give back to local communities by donating watercolors and pastels to nonprofit organizations for fundraising events. One hundred percent of proceeds are used to support those in need, protect the environment and support other causes. In the last decade I have donated over 130 paintings (see Contact” for examples of donation recipients).
After retirement in 2011, I began to paint and found that for me, watercolor and pastel are the best media to use, especially while traveling. Travels have included camping in the magnificent parks of North America, international travel, and extensive cruising with my husband on the east and west coasts of the US, Canada and in the Bahamas. In the last couple of decades we have lived aboard for months at a time, sailing from Maine to Florida and the Bahamas and cruising in the US and Canada in the Pacific Northwest. Painting never fails to make me more keenly aware and appreciative of both new and well-known surroundings.
" Your life is your message" - Gandhi
TRAVEL BLOGS
2 years of cruising the US east coast and Bahamas: https://neverland2015-17.blogspot.com
11-week tent camping trip to the Grand Canyon: https://swroadtrip2015.blogspot.com
5 weeks in the Netherlands and England: https://landcruisingsummer2017.blogspot.com
6 months of causing the US east coast and Bahamas in 2018-19: https://neverland2018-19.blogspot.com
5 weeks in Costa Rica in 2022: https://costaricajanuary2022.blogspot.com
2022 newsletter: safeandpeaceful2023.blogspot.com