Kohlene Hendrickson
Kohlene Hendrickson is a Californian-born artist based in the medieval village of Romainmôtier, Switzerland, where she has lived since 2000. She studied Fine Arts at Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles and worked for over a decade as an illustrator and art director before returning to painting. Her studies in fresco with Frederico Vigil, in the lineage of Diego Rivera, led her to Italy, where she discovered encaustic painting, an ancient technique using natural materials. Since then, she has developed a distinctive multi-media process combining beeswax, resin, pigments, and gum arabic, creating works that merge transparency, texture, and depth. Hendrickson’s practice explores dimensionality, embodiment, and the cosmic nature of Eros, blending abstraction and figuration to evoke the intimate connection between the human and the universal. Kohlene's work has been exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States and Europe (France, Italy, Switzerland, and Austria), she also has been part of several group exhibitions in Uxval Gochez Gallery in Barcelona, Spain, and show her artworks on ART MADRID art Fair in 2026.