John Hendrickson has lived and worked in Pineville, Kentucky most of his life. He has been employed for 57 years at Pineville Community Hospital, Inc., as a Radiologic Technologist of which he has been Department Director since 1974.

John carved with his father in the 60's carving dogs, horses, and birds until his father's death in 1970. He continued wood working and had a cabinet shop for a number of years. He attended Caricature Carvers of America woodcarving show at Dollywood in 1994. There in a demonstration booth he was invited to try his hand at carving caricatures, which renewed his interest in carving. He later became a member of the Smokey Mountain Woodcarving Club: Gary Falin, Wayne Shinlever, Jack Williams and others who introduced him to caricature carving. He has since had the opportunity to carve with members of this club as well as Harold Enlow, a renowned caricature carver and Helen Gibson of John C. Campbell Folk School.

John is a member of Pine Mountain Woodcarvers in Pineville, Kentucky, a small talented group who enjoy carving caricatures and canes.

John became a juried member of the Kentucky Guild of Artist and
Craftsman in 2005 and a juried member of Kentucky Crafted in 2006. His
entry in Woodcarving illustrated magazine Santa carving contest was included
in the top 28 printed in the Holiday 2007 issue #41.