After a long career painting and exhibiting in the Bay Area, Ellen Koment now works primarily with encaustic and has been exhibiting in this medium for twenty years.
ELLEN KOMENT is a New Mexico-based artist. She is a recent recipient of the 2018 Gottlieb Foundation Artist Grant. A New Yorker, a graduate of the Cooper Union Art School and UC Berkeley, she now lives in Santa Fe, NM. After a long career painting and exhibiting in the Bay Area, Ellen Koment now works primarily with encaustic and has been exhibiting in this medium for twenty years. She has long taught workshops in encaustic painting, having developed a number of original techniques, and always encourages her students to find their own voice in this ancient and beautiful medium.