ENCAUSTIC WORKSHOP - ATHENS, GREECE

🎨 To melt wax is to merge with the moment. Light and fire become an image.

In an artist's home tucked away in the alleyways of Plaka, a historic neighborhood in Athens, this workshop revives an ancient technique: encaustic.

🔥 The name comes from Greek enkaustikos, which means "to burn with fire." Used since the 5th century BC by the Greeks and Romans, encaustic painting consists of painting with hot beeswax mixed with natural pigments. It is applied with a brush, spatula, or heat tools, and melted directly onto the surface. The result is a work with texture, depth, and an almost mineral appearance, capable of lasting for centuries.
If you want to explore more about this ancient technique, you can visit the Google Arts & Culture page on encaustics, which covers its history, evolution and artistic relevance.

🖌️ Guided by a local artist, you'll learn how to prepare pigments, heat wax, and experiment with layers, transparency, and fire. The sensorial experience combines aroma, warmth, and texture on a wooden or canvas support.

📘 The workshop is taught in English, with visual aids and demonstrations. No prior knowledge is required; just a desire to explore an art that transforms the ephemeral into the eternal.

In the warm silence of the studio, each stroke becomes a mark. As in ancient Greece, one doesn't just paint an image: one creates a mark that time will not erase.

⏳ Some footprints are not made with ink: they are melted with fire and engraved forever.