Kohlene Hendrickson

Country: Switzerland

Kohlene Hendrickson is a native Californian, whom moved to Switzerland in 2000 where she has found "home" in the enchanted medieval village of Romainmôtier. She studied Fine Arts at the Otis Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles. She worked for 12 years as an illustrator and art director, then returned to fine arts by studying fresco with Frederico Vigil, lineage of Diego Rivera. Passionate about fresco, she went to Italy where she discovered encaustic painting, another ancient technique using natural materials and has continued to experiment with encaustic. Her search for a medium that could translate transparent layering of colors and rich mass material finally evolved into her unique multi-media technique, combining the materials of beeswax, resin, pigments and gum arabic. Her artwork is luminous and expressive abstract figuration, exploring dimensionality, the human and cosmic of EROS. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in the USA and in Europe Accolades The Collectors Art Prize, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine 2023, The Faces of Peace Art Book, Contemporary Art Curator Magazine 2022, Primo Piano Atelier Prize – Silver Certificate Award (Best technical execution) Lecce, Italy “Women’s solidarity” – Artwork “Shekhinah”, 2020. International Artist of the Year -female, by “ART COMES ALIVE 2019”. She is a grant recipient awarded by the New York Council for the Arts, the "Inaugural Mario Venturini Artist Residency" at HAC FLX (2015). She was awarded the "Grand Prix Europeo Albrecht Dürer" by the Accademia Gentilizia Il Marzocco of Florence for her painting “Awakening” in 2012.

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