Ibizan Hound Art

by Karen Gulmon

Karen lives on a small ranch (Rancho Pandora) in Sonoma County where she works in her studio and raises/exhibits half-Arabian horses and breeds/shows AKC Ibizan Hounds.

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1998 head study - "Diva"



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2001 head study - "Ursula"


Karen is a multi-faced artist who works in such diverse mediums as oils, acrylics, watercolors, colored-pencils, pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, silk screen, photography, and sculpture. She studied Old master painting under the tutelage of Maestro Richard Bianchi in Italy for two years. She has also studied in Yokosuka, Japan; Agana, Guam, Marianas Islands; Bad Godesburg and Belin, Germany; Paris, France; Figline Valdarno and Florence, Italy. She also has a modern back ground of study, as modern art, the colorists, minimalists, and conceptual arts were the focus of her studies at the Corcoran School of Art in Washington, DC.

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1998 Natural Hunting


Karen has shown her paintings (oils, acrylics, and watercolors), photographs, and drawings in many group as well as one-artist shows from Washington, DC to Florence, Italy. Her works are in many private collections throughout the world. Her latest project is designing and executing canine art works. Many have been used as prizes for Ibizan Hound Specialties and supported entries in several different countries.

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1998 Ibizans at Play


Currently there are several different Ibizan Hound theme collections of signed and numbered prints in watercolors, colored-pencil, and pencil drawings. Each have approximately 5 different prints per collection.

They include:
Head Studies, Lure Coursing, Natural Hunting, Ibizans at Play, and Egyptian Style Replicas

Karen also does a limited amount of commissioned work and other "fun" things such as: Beezer Boxes (hand paintings on wood jewelery boxes), Beezer Bags (hand paintings on canvas bags), and Beezer Rocks (hand painted on natural rocks)

And of course she does many other breeds aswell.

You can send an e-mail to: ranchopandora@pon.net for a complete list.

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