The surface of a cold wax painting is never passive. This post explores how I approach the building and reworking of a painted surface — the layering, the scraping back, the moments of decision — and what it means for a painting to feel alive rather than resolved.

Cold wax is not simply a material — it is a way of working. This post describes what cold wax medium is, how it behaves in combination with oil paint, and why its particular qualities — resistance, translucency, the way it holds a mark — have made it central to my practice over many years.

'Shallow Lands' 100 x 100 cm Mixed Media on Canvas Materials, Tools and the Unconventional Paint can be applied with almost anything that will hold it. I rarely use brushes in my current work — not from any aversion to them, but because working with brushes alone tends to return me to a familiar repertoire of marks and painterly qualities that become predictable over time. The introduction of unconventional materials and tools has been both liberating and demanding, opening u