Latest News — encaustic art

So fulfilling to see our pure beeswax being used by artisans around Australia to craft and create beautiful beeswax products.  Annika Gollasch of Lillebo Creations is a recycler and upcycler who uses our beeswax to produce stunning recycled wine bottle candles. She even uses the wine bottle lids to make little tealights! At The Beekeeper® our bees produce beautiful wax from a variety of floral sources, and then we humans gently filter it before pouring it in to moulds to set. Beeswax is the most beautiful, natural product, and has it all over soy, palm and synthetic paraffin. The beautiful scent of beeswax alone is...

We know a lot of the beeswax we produce at The BeeKeeper® is used in skincare balms, polishes, candles and beeswax food wraps, but this week we also learned that Pearl Beach-based artist Marijke Greenway is now using our beautiful beeswax in her art too. The use of hot beeswax as a painting technique is known as ‘encaustic’. It requires the melting of beeswax (which smells wonderful!), mixing of pigments and application while still hot. The beeswax can be layered and while still warm can be shaped to add texture. According to Marijke, “Encaustic comes from the Greek (enkaustikos) which means...