My encaustic works have all been created at my bush studio in Humpty Doo, for over the last five years dating back to early 2014, previous to this I worked solely in acrylic for my abstract works, occasionally changing to gouache and water colour for my landscapes. 

A very big part of my physical/psyche affections belong in the nature of nature all around me. Working with bees wax is indeed part of this nature in itself, the smells of the sometimes different wax form a different flower or part of the land, the smell of hog bristles burning in the flames that have separated from the brush I am using, all along with some of the material I use in my works come from the immediate surroundings of this nature around my bush studio workshop. http://buffalostopendarts.com/

The seclusion of my studio means I can work all hours of the day and night on my works and most of the time if not sleeping or eating I am creating. Unfortunately at this moment in time I have to work in government employment to finance my artwork and artistic lifestyle, however here again this gives me strength and purpose to go on and create more, because it’s a complete antithesis to my art world.

I started to paint when I was a little fella at the age of about seven or so, the lady that lived on a farm next to us was an Art teacher, I sat with her on weekends and she tutored me a little on using oils.

Encaustic painting, also known as hot wax painting, involves using heated beeswax to which colored pigments are added. The liquid or paste is then applied to a surface of usually prepared wood, though canvas and other materials are often used. In making such encaustic work it is concealed that a small percentage in working this is dangerous, burns from the molten wax, toxic fumes from the oil or pigments used, to heat the wax we need tools that are hotter than that of most tools used in regular art works.