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.