Natalie Dwyer Creative Studio

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Graphic Designer • Illustrator • Miniaturist • Modelmaker • Artist • Crafter • Creative Social Media Manager •

🗝️ Creating enchanting illustrations, ethereal landscapes and charming miniatures.

🧵Stunning, ethical accessories from sustainable sources.

I’ve finally put away the Christmas decorations and these two new creations went in with them. I think I’ve scratched my...
11/01/2025

I’ve finally put away the Christmas decorations and these two new creations went in with them. I think I’ve scratched my macramé itch now 😆

Here’s a pretty birthday card I made this week for my friend 🥳 It’s an original miniature encaustic wax painting- I melt...
10/01/2025

Here’s a pretty birthday card I made this week for my friend 🥳 It’s an original miniature encaustic wax painting- I melt blocks of wax on the surface of a special small iron and paint with the melted wax, pulling it across the coated surface of the paper to create the magical landscape! The colour palette on this painting was inspired by my friend’s favourite purple colour, with silver added for a wintery shimmer like the snowy and icy weather we have had in Ireland this week 🪩

✨It was very exciting to receive this yummy prize from  for my Christmas window display collaboration with  🤩 I was abso...
09/01/2025

✨It was very exciting to receive this yummy prize from for my Christmas window display collaboration with 🤩 I was absolutely thrilled, and so was little Jack from my Victorian Christmas miniature scene!

If you haven’t already come across Alternative Christmas Pudding, it’s a handmade, luxury Belgian chocolate and biscuit pudding with a really nice texture and delicious flavour - mine was the Irish cream liqueur version and we devoured it 😁

The packaging on the pudding is really stunning too. The velvet wrapping can be used to wrap gifts, Furoshiki style, but I feel inspired to make something with the beautiful teal fabric and purple ribbon 🧵

It’s January and I’ve just finished a big graphic design job for a client, so it was time to get stuck into some hands-o...
08/01/2025

It’s January and I’ve just finished a big graphic design job for a client, so it was time to get stuck into some hands-on creative work 🥰 I was excited to try out all the new colour blocks of encaustic wax that I got for Christmas 🎁 The recent appearances of the Nothern Lights here in West Cork inspired some of the colour palettes for the skies.

Which one is your favourite? These vary in size from A6 to business card size, which would be perfect as original wall art for a contemporary dollshouse 🖼️ I have such a soft spot for miniatures - everything looks gorgeous in small scale! Let’s see just how small I can paint on my next session…

Looking forward to getting these framed! I will have to make my own frames for the tiny ones 😍

And that’s a wrap for 2024, but you can still go and see my miniature Victorian-inspired Christmas scene in the window a...
31/12/2024

And that’s a wrap for 2024, but you can still go and see my miniature Victorian-inspired Christmas scene in the window at until 6th January! A huge thanks to everyone who bought my Christmas cards of the cosy scene this year. It has been amazing to bring this project back out of storage and put it out in the world- back when I handcrafted this model, Instagram didn’t exist. But this isn’t the end of the story! There is much more to tell, and I am so excited to show you in 2025 🥰

22/12/2024

So my festive Victorian-inspired miniature is on display in the window of the gorgeous little chocolate shop Hungry Crow at The Pike, just outside Clonakilty here in West Cork. It has been amazing to work with this fantastic business and their brilliant team. They uphold their values strongly, and all their chocolate products and stuffed dates are simply wonderful.

If you’re in West Cork over the Christmas holidays, do pop down to the chocolate shop and have a look at the window! I’ll be sad when I have to dismantle it 😭 but I have some great plans for it for 2025 🤞

Let me know if you’ve been out to Hungry Crow to sample their amazing hot chocolate and took a look at my window display...
13/12/2024

Let me know if you’ve been out to Hungry Crow to sample their amazing hot chocolate and took a look at my window display ☺️

Delighted to see my work featured with Yay Cork 🥰 I love their charming and positive Cork- related news stories. If you’...
09/12/2024

Delighted to see my work featured with Yay Cork 🥰 I love their charming and positive Cork- related news stories.

If you’re in West Cork, do pop in to Hungry Crow for a look at my window display and treat yourself to a delicious hot chocolate with amazing homemade marshmallows, and choose one of Niamh’s decadent chocolate treats to enjoy with it 😉

This is absolutely adorable (AND their hot chocolate is 🤌😍) 👇👇

I’m delighted to reveal my handcrafted Victorian miniature set which is now on display in the window of  in The Pike, Cl...
26/11/2024

I’m delighted to reveal my handcrafted Victorian miniature set which is now on display in the window of in The Pike, Clonakilty. It’s free to view during the chocolate shop’s opening hours, but I would highly recommend popping inside for a delicious hot chocolate with handcrafted marshmallows and some of Niamh’s decadent chocolates or enrobed dates while you’re there 🤤

My vision was to create a beautiful window display for all to enjoy during the festive season, capturing the nostalgic charm of a Victorian Christmas.

The model was created as a backdrop to illustrate the Victorian fairytale “Through the Fire” by Mary de Morgan, which was one of my favourites as a child. It is a story of love and miracles set in Victorian London, and occurs on the nights of Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve when many magical things are possible ✨

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🥶 Brr it’s getting very chilly here in West Cork! Definitely time to light the fire if you have one. I don’t have a fire...
19/11/2024

🥶 Brr it’s getting very chilly here in West Cork! Definitely time to light the fire if you have one. I don’t have a fireplace in my sitting room, but there’s a gorgeous one in this dollshouse-size model set I am rebuilding! And it is oh so cosy 🥰 I can’t wait to put the pieces back together and get the lights working 🔥

Those stunning tiles were designed by Arts & Crafts era ceramic artist William de Morgan. I would love to see them on a real fireplace!

🧟 Since it’s Spooky Season, I thought I’d share some posters I created to advertise three classic horror movies for a pr...
31/10/2024

🧟 Since it’s Spooky Season, I thought I’d share some posters I created to advertise three classic horror movies for a pretend film festival while I was studying modelmaking in college!

Each poster features a photograph of a real model which I built, sculpted or cast. I think The Shining is my favourite, as I really enjoyed creating the typography for the title and fitting it into the centre of the actual maze design from the film.

I get immense satisfaction from mending things, especially torn clothes. There’s something lovely about working with dif...
23/10/2024

I get immense satisfaction from mending things, especially torn clothes. There’s something lovely about working with different types of fabrics and embellishments to restore an item of clothing back to wardrobe circulation. I enjoy the challenge of mending a piece to look like it was never ripped in the first place, and I also love the honesty that a visible mend presents in a slow, quiet rebellion against fast fashion. Some mends can only be seen if you really look for them. Our garments tell stories about the wearers. It was a joy to repair these clothes for a friend. I feel lucky to have had the opportunity and the time to learn the skills needed for this work, and to have been able to help a friend to extend the life of these lovely clothes.

I really enjoyed this month’s Artist Shed meet-up at . We introduced ourselves and it was inspiring to hear what media o...
18/10/2024

I really enjoyed this month’s Artist Shed meet-up at . We introduced ourselves and it was inspiring to hear what media other artists work in, what influences them, and where they sell their art, with some interesting discussions arising.

An exciting part of the meet-up for me was giving a quick demo in Gelli plate monoprinting 😀 I completed the first two circular prints, using image transfer and masking, with patterns and textures created with stencil shapes and cookie cutters.

I want to give a big shoutout to my amazingly creative friend who showed me the basics of Gelli plate printmaking. Back in college when I was studying graphic design (under the broaded heading of Design - Visual Communication) I fell in love with printmaking. In those four years, I spent as much time as I could down in the printmaking studio in the fine art building. I learned different types of screenprinting, etching, aquatint, woodcut, collagraph and much more. I adored the textures that I could manipulate during the printmaking process, and the layering of colours and graphics. It was very hands-on and I enjoyed the mixed pace of working quickly for some techniques and working slowly for others, letting the prints dry between layers.

After college, I realised that I did not have access to the sort of printmaking equipment I had used at college. There was no space for large, messy projects where I was living and working. Despite having notes about easier, smaller scale work like cutting stamps from erasers, making lino prints, drawing onto glass to create monoprints, I left printmaking to one side and concentrated on other types of art & craft work.

Thanks to social media, I have access to many tutorials about types of printmaking I can do at home with very little “equipment”. The Gelli plate is an incredible tool which gives me so much satisfaction in the creative printmaking process. Easy, accessible, fun! I’m looking forward to experimenting with it more and more.

✨ New earrings! Handpainted onto wood using encaustic (melted!) wax, each pair is one of a kind. I love the textured she...
09/10/2024

✨ New earrings! Handpainted onto wood using encaustic (melted!) wax, each pair is one of a kind. I love the textured sheen that the metallic silver pigment brings to the surface 🩶

I have used silver plated earring wires on these, and I would love to know which length you prefer?

Can you believe it?! I have had these gorgeous pieces of sequined fabrics for 20 years 🫣😳😱 When I first got my hands on ...
09/10/2024

Can you believe it?! I have had these gorgeous pieces of sequined fabrics for 20 years 🫣😳😱 When I first got my hands on them in a charity shop, I’m sure I had lots of different projects in mind. They held so much potential. But I kept them and kept them and didn’t get around to using them. So I was delighted when I had a go at making pumpkins with them and they turned out great 😊

🎃 Now to sculpt some stems for them!

This week I played with encaustic wax on surfaces I had never tried before, and I was pleasantly surprised with the resu...
20/09/2024

This week I played with encaustic wax on surfaces I had never tried before, and I was pleasantly surprised with the results- deep, moody, matte layers of saturation on the grey mixed media 250gsm card, magical textures on 200gsm watercolour paper, beautiful softness on woven fabric through transfer print, other-worldly grainy depth on thin wooden cutouts, and the most beautiful winding paths and creases on tissue paper and canvas.

I’m so excited to work these pieces up further, maybe using collage and pens or pencils 😀

Yesterday was wonderful. It began with the best coffee at  with friends, followed by an inspiring  Artist Members Shed m...
19/09/2024

Yesterday was wonderful. It began with the best coffee at with friends, followed by an inspiring Artist Members Shed meetup, sewing with a brilliant bunch of ladies at , the most amazing salad at for my lunch while I did some social media client work, and I completed three new encaustic wax mini landscape paintings ☺️ I had some fun experimenting with transferring a wax painting onto fabric and using tissue paper to create an interesting texture.

🧶 Happy International Crochet Day to my crochet-loving friends! It’s only in the last couple of years that I have gotten...
12/09/2024

🧶 Happy International Crochet Day to my crochet-loving friends! It’s only in the last couple of years that I have gotten the hang of crochet, thanks to the brilliant Textiles course in and a Ladybird book from the 1970s 😅

As a child, I learned how to knit, sew and embroider, but there’s something lovely about crochet and how fast a piece can come together. There is much I want to learn, but I am really enjoying doing a bit of crochet while watching tv these days.

I’ve tagged some of my skilled crochet friends in the hope that they will share some of their crochet work 😀

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