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 (France, Italy,
Switzerland and Austria). Plexus Art Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland. Represented by PRIMOPIANO LivinGallery- Lecce, Italy
 
Accolades
- 1st prize by World Women Talent System & Primo Piano LivinGallery, 2025
-M/Musa International: Woman’s Essence Show, 2024 WOMAN Art Award
-Invited Artist and Godmother of exhibition ART WOMAN 2024, Primo Piano LivinGallery.
Lecce, Italy
–Harmony for Humanity: The Global Consciousness Art Prize 2023
 –Contemporary Art Curator Magazine 2023, The Faces of Peace Art Book
–Primo Piano Atelier Prize – Silver Certificate Award (Best technical execution)  Curated
exhibition in Lecce, Italy “Women’s         solidarity” – Artwork “Shekhinah”, 2020. 
– International Artist of the Year -female, by “ART COMES ALIVE 2019”
–Grant recipient awarded by the New York Council for the Arts, the "Inaugural Mario
Venturini Artist Residency" at HAC FLX (2015)
–Grand Prix Europeo Albrecht Dürer" by the Accademia Gentilizia Il Marzocco of Florence
for her painting “Awakening” in 2012
–BoldBrush semi-finalist for her painting "Double Vision



COSMO-EROTIC HUMANISM
EROS is my inspiration, all of reality as LOVE. My art has been referred to as abstract figuration. Most of the time I include the human form even if loosely, the connection of being human, multi-dimensional and divine. Either in full ecstatic experience or in exploration of the emotions and frequencies between. A term I like is COSMO-EROTIC HUMANISM. Recently, I’m also enjoying purely abstract expression. Constant in all of my art is movement, layers of transparent color and texture. I’m able to achieve this by pouring paint which is a dance between hazard and control, then finishing it with encaustic wax. The surface is worked with a torch and metal tools.