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rowing up between Florida and Mallorca, Dora Alzamora Good was always surrounded by creativity. Grace Alzamora, her mom and Mariana Alzamora, her aunt, are both successful artists, and when Dora was young, they ran a studio in Florida where they made large-scale mosaic tile installations and stone and shell fountains for private homes and public commissions. Jeanne Alzamora, (Dora’s grandmother), who was originally from Peru, was a sculptor, working in wood, stone and clay, and she also quilted and made batiks. Her uncle Victor is a painter and her cousin Emil Alzamora, a sculptor. It’s safe to say that there is serious creative DNA in this family. Much of this familial creativity was also fueled by summers spent in Deia, which, at the time, was a sleepy, low-key mountain village where free-thinking creatives would hang out and make art in a very liberated and unencumbered way. Good originally thought she wanted to be a painter, “I wanted to add beauty to the world,” she notes, but soon realised it was not her medium. She connected with sculpture during some classes at La Massana art school in Barcelona, as well as other classes in New York and London, where she continued to explore different mediums and styles.
