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Doug Palmer was an early guest at The Gathering Place. A gentle man, he taught art here, as well as at Sweetser’s Learning and Recovery Center on Mere Point Road in Brunswick.  Whether oil, watercolors, pastels or pencil drawings, Palmer “had such talent,” said Nancy Herk, Executive Director of Brunswick Area Respite Care.“He could just […]

Doug Palmer’s picture

The picture of the ocean and clouds give me a feeling of calmness and peace just like it does when I visit it in person. When I look at the ocean and listen to the waves, it always seems to have a way of taking my troublesome thoughts and worries and slowly making them disappear […]

Clouds

(for Doug Palmer) Love those pastel popcorn clouds in your paintings at the Gathering Place and Little Dog cafe’. Small, uniform, dancing across the sky. Some seem to smile the same wry smile I’d see on your face as you walked by. There were other clouds in your life, I gather, larger  lower, random, glowering. […]