Elevate Your Photographs
with our photo encaustic courses and photo adventures
Welcome to Photo Encaustic — a tactile, layered approach to photography that brings photographs and wax together to make art thats uniquely yours.
Photo encaustic is a hands-on photographic process that transforms images using layers of beeswax and pigment. It’s not about perfect prints or polished surfaces—it’s about depth, texture, and allowing an image to evolve beyond what it was when it was first captured.
The word encaustic may sound intimidating at first, but the process itself is surprisingly forgiving. Beeswax is translucent, tactile, and endlessly reworkable. You can add, subtract, scrape back, and begin again—nothing is precious, and nothing is permanent.
If you’re drawn to exploration, serendipity, and working with your photographs in a more intuitive, physical way, you’re in the right place.
From photograph to finished encaustic piece—this is where the image transforms, slows down, and begins to tell a deeper story.
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Whether you’re just curious about encaustic, ready to dive deeper into your craft, or looking for guidance that meets you exactly where you are — this is the place.
Our blog is full of insights, inspiration, and conversations about creative practice — from technique and materials to mindset and craft — there is always something to explore.
Gather your photographs for encaustic on this creative journey through Ireland’s landscapes where intuition, connection, and artistic discovery lead the way — let’s connect and photograph together.
Let me introduce myself.
I’m Clare O’Neill. I’m a photographer and artist who helps creatives around the world turn their photographs into layered, one-of-a-kind art they truly love. Drawn early on to encaustic—an ancient wax-based medium—I found a way to merge photography with texture, gesture, and chance, creating images that hold both intention and mystery.
For more than a decade, I’ve been teaching photo encaustic both online and in person, sharing not just the how, but the why. My goal isn’t just to teach the process, but to help you develop confidence, clarity, and a stronger connection to why you create—so the images you create feel meaningful, authentic, and unmistakably yours.
