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My name is Mesi, I am from Hungary and have been living in Norway since 2021. I am an art therapy MA student, candle maker and illustrator.
My father is a beekeeper so I have been surrounded by beeswax ever since I remember. This has led me to start making candles with it early on, since it has been always available at home.
Apart from that, I have always liked painting as well, so in 2020 I started making beeswax candles with paintings on them.
Working with beeswax is a very tactile experience, but it also interacts with the smell-sense (the sweet honey-like smell is divine). I quickly became obsessed with doing this, and some people started liking them so it became a small-business after a few months. I was getting more and more local orders with people wanting me to paint certain things on the candles.
Here are some photos:
After a while I have been starting to hear the same thing over and over again:
"your candle looks so beautiful, I never want to use it".
It kept bugging me - I wanted to make something that is a bit more practical. I ventured into scented candles and started playing around with forms, and labels. Here are some examples from this journey:
I love each collection in its own way, as it all represents a part of my journey.
In 2025 I am really glad I got back to drawing the labels with my own hands. I truly feel like I have managed to reconnect to my illustration style after many years, and that feels like a homecoming.
And even though it is really hard to make scented candles with beeswax, I am still keeping that material very close to my heart, and I am planning to keep using it as an art material in the future, something that creates a connection in my heart to Hungary and what my father means to me.
During my MA studies, I got inspired to do a project regarding using it as an art therapy material (beeswax mandalas), which I will be presenting about, on the 23. Nordic Art Therapy Conference in Tampere, Finland, in May 2026.
As you can see, I am constantly (unknowingly) working on ways to bridge my different passions together and it seems to be working out. Thank you for reading this long!
