First Thursdays: Illustrated Beeswax Candle Making with Anieszka Banks

Join us for First Thursdays in Devonport - Te Hau Kapua

Winter is a precious time of hidden growth and renewal with the seeds of summer stored safely underground sleeping.

We will capture the heat of the summer and autumn harvests and use these visuals to create candles that will carry us through winter with the warmth of summer.

Using real chillies as our inspiration we will plan out our designs on paper. Anieszka will then talk through the process of transferring the design onto beeswax candles using modelling wax. The process is delicate, tactile and relaxing.

This is an opportunity to learn a new skill, but to also sit together in companionship while making something new and beautiful for your home. The workshop will be relaxed, accessible and you will be encouraged to work at the pace and style that best suits you.

Tickets are $65 and cover all materials and refreshments courtesy of our hospitality partners Man O’ War, Swiftsure Vineyards and Toi Toi Wines.

This workshop is suitable for ages 16+. 
Koha will be accepted upon entry. 

About Anieszka Banks

Anieszka is a mixed-media creative, maker and illustrator, working across many areas. As well as acrylics, paper cutting, collage, photography and drawing. Her work is chaotic, messy, colourful and fun, full of magic and mayhem.

Her business is named after her young twins Poppy and Sage. She creates handmade sculpted beeswax candles, crayons, and hand-carved and painted wooden pieces. Everything is made by her at home in her studio by the beach on the wild west coast of Auckland.

Anieszka uses real fruits and vegetables grown by family and friends to create moulds for her beeswax candles, making each one truly unique. She is always experimenting with new ways to bend the boundaries of what can be made, often in response to the environment around her and what is in season etc. 

Recently getting her own bees in her flower garden at home she is determined to make things that reflect her core values for the business -  a strong belief in producing small, hand-made batches of high-quality items.

Only using good, kind materials that are gentle on the earth, and on our families and friends. Most importantly, the things need to be fun, both to make and to use!

https://www.poppyandsage.com/