Encaustic Art
This is the home of Encaustic Art in Australia and is dedicated to Michael Bossom who developed this modernized form of painting with bees wax in 1986. Since then he has written three books and made several instructional videos on the “How To” of this art form. We had the pleasure of visiting with Michael and his charming wife Shona in June 2010 and made the video clip shown below.
This site is also dedicated to Donna Barker, the young Tasmanian artiste who discovered Encaustic Art after seeing Michael’s book on “How to Paint with Wax” in a library. She quickly grew to love the effects obtained and became
a distributor of the product and designed and published this web site. In February 2011 she approached us to take over the supply of product to her clients and also the running of this web site so that she could concentrate on raising her family.
Credit should also be given to Melanie Dunstan who first brought Encaustic Art to Australia over twenty five years ago. Some years later she was probably the first to actively promote and teach Encaustic Art with her business Allcrafts operating in Perth W.A. A change in family circumstances caused her to cease importing stock and the importing and wholesaling was taken over by Mercurius School Supplies of Melbourne
Our involvement with Encaustic Art goes back to 1997 and you can read Margaret’s story on her Journey page.
In March 2011 we left our home on Lake Macquarie NSW to commence our second ‘Round Oz’ adventure and you can read our current location on the Travel page. Please do not hesitate to contact us if we are in your area.
We hope you will enjoy our site.
