Encaustic Art - Painting with a Travel Iron

The pictures you can see on this site are known as encaustic paintings. They were created with hot molten pigmented beeswax and most of them were painted, at least in part, with a travel iron. Six of them in the collection on the left were painted entirely with an iron.

Encaustic artist Lester Edenborough takes advantage of the flow properties of molten wax to form 'patterns' (resembling sky, water, hills or mountains, undergrowth, etc.) which are arranged to create a pictorial whole.

You are invited to visit the galleries or to explore the site using the menu at the top of the page.

At the galleries you can view and buy originals and prints. The pictures are very modestly priced and carry a 14 day customer satisfaction guarantee.