Yellow Rabbitbrush

Leah Kohlenberg has painted for 25 years, and is primarily self-taught, though she’s taken classes at the Art Students League of New York, the Gage Academy in Seattle, and the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, and studied privately for five years with professional artists in Eastern Europe. She is represented by Cambium Gallery in Astoria, Oregon, and her art is in private and public collections worldwide. Her paintings use unexpected colour and visible drip marks to convey vibrancy, movement and the temporary transience of all subjects.
She runs an online art school called The Roaming Studio, and was awarded a Regional Arts and Culture Council grant to publish her first book, The Roaming Studio Step-by-Step Guide to Drawing Faces, released in early 2016.
She served for ten years as board president of Portland Open Studios, a non-profit supporting professional artists, in Portland Oregon, before stepping down in 2024; and is currently treasurer of the newly founded non profit, the Olive Rush Memorial Studio, which will turn artist Olive Rush’s house in Santa Fe, NM, into a public museum honoring Rush's work and life and dedicated to supporting women and indigenous artists.