Painting with Cold Wax Medium

A relatively new and different way of thinking about art-making, working with cold wax medium is a process, a set of experiments and discoveries – the medium challenges and gives pleasure, it’s sensual and holds infinite possibilities for any type of art practice.

Whether beginner artist or expert in your artistic field already (and even if you’ve been to workshops before), the medium allows for ongoing experimentation and development. For this workshop we will work with abstraction and realism depending on individual preference.

Janet Mazenier is a painter made in Ireland and born in Aotearoa New Zealand. Her work speaks to the spirit of places that she explores, their genius loci. Currently in the final year of PhD candidature (Creative Practice) at Auckland University of Technology she is actively researching her ancestral home of Ireland by undertaking multiple residencies. With an upcoming exhibition in Iceland following a second residency at the Burren in Co. Clare she has a number of Aotearoa New Zealand exhibitions planned for 2025 and beyond. Recently a finalist in the Waikato Painting and Printmaking Awards 2025, in 2024 her work “Mudflats” won the main Painting Award. (www.janetmazenier.com Insta: @janetmaz).