Emily Rose Hastie's journey into the fire-based art form of pyrography started with a cheese board.A high school teacher from the Gold Coast, Hastie had recently rekindled her childhood love of drawing through a local art collective, focusing on charcoal and toned paper.Then her mum asked if she could draw a mouse on a new wooden cheese platter she'd bought But drawing or painting the design would mean the board couldn't be washed."I originally used a laser printer at the school to just trial the design, and it was really not that satisfying," says Hastie."For me as an artist I was like, 'I can do better'."So she visited a hardware store, bought a $30 soldering kit, and gave it a shot."It was like I got the soldering iron and this whole world emerged," she says.Now, Hastie is an established pyrography artist who co-founded her own art studio