"Your Dream Space is Only an Artist Away"
Winter 2026 New workshops coming soon
"Learn how to make your own Hand Painted Wallpaper and Floorcloths"
Encaustic lessons, workshops, and demos in my studio.
%Learn more about the history of this unique, challenging, alchemy guided, luminous, addictive, and wondrous medium of Encaustics. Where unexpected art accidents are beautiful. Professionally I divide my time as a fine artist and teacher. I work on site-specific artwork with interior designers and architects. Some of the things I design and build are mobiles, custom room dividers, screens, murals on canvas, floor-cloths, and Lazy Susan's.
Bio and Statement
Chicagoan Jenny Learner has been making art her entire life. Classically trained at the American Academy of Art and self-taught in interior, surface design & photography. For over 40 years this multi-faceted artist has been designing custom room dividers, screens, hand-painted wall coverings, fabrics, murals, site-specific art for Interior Designers and Architects. She exhibits, teaches, curates, juries locally and nationally. A published featured artist in Encaustic Art in the Twenty-First Century by Anne Lee & E. Ashley Rooney, "Dining Among the Stars" by Michael Curry, several Chicago magazines and newspapers. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Encaustic Art Institute in Santa Fe New Mexico and in many private collections worldwide.
After an introduction to encaustic she fell in love with the ancient medium of fusing fire with beeswax and pure pigment. Encaustic became her elixir of life. Imagine painting and sculpting within the wonderful realm of flowers and honey. The medium’s luminosity, transparency, aromatherapy, alchemy, with the unexpected results constantly surprise her.