About
Karen Alcantara

Karen Alcantara works from a studio in Florida, usually with at least one dog asleep at her feet. Before Florida came Spain — years of living among stone villages, terracotta rooftops, and the kind of narrow archways that still turn up, unannounced, in her paintings today.

Her work moves between two worlds. The first is the animal world: robins caught mid-glance, a rooster's scarlet comb, a horse in the quiet half-light of a stable, the particular softness of a sleeping dog. The second is the slow European countryside she still carries with her — peonies spilling from a terracotta pot, climbing roses on a weathered door, a sunlit courtyard opening onto distant water.

Each piece is an original, painted by hand, with care for the subject as much as the surface.