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Encaustic Artist • Miniaturist • Graphic Designer • Modelmaker • Crafter • Content Creator
🖼️ Painter of enchanting miniature landscapes in encaustic wax.
🗝️ Creator of charming, tiny things.
🧵Stunning, ethical accessories from sustainable sources.

17/10/2026

Delighted to be exhibiting two encaustic paintings with West Cork Collective at Carrigaline Library this month.

15/10/2026

I am so excited to have two very special pieces included in the selection for Layers of the Land at Market Gallery. This wonderful exhibition opens Friday 16th October 6-8pm and continues until 22nd November. I would love to see you at the opening!

Huge thanks to Gerard Sexton (Salim) and Silvio Severino for the fantastic support they provide to fellow artists through the curation and showcase of our work to the fantastic client base in the gallery.

Ceantar/Alltar means Locality/The Otherworld. It was inspired by Manchán’s idea around this concept with Ceantar being this place, or this region, and Alltar being the opposite, the netherworld, the dimensions beyond and imagining that there is only a thin veil between this world and the Otherworld. Designed to hang on a wall or sit on a shelf like a book, this little cabinet invites the viewer to travel through this place to what lies beyond: the Otherworld. The night sky alluding to the Northern Lights represents the veil between worlds. The miniature dreamscapes inside are painted in encaustic wax on sealed paper, which naturally creates an ethereal, other-worldly quality.

In Irish, 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙝𝙡𝙖 means 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙛 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙙𝙤𝙤𝙧, 𝙖 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬 𝙨𝙝𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙫𝙖𝙡𝙫𝙚. 𝘾𝙤𝙢𝙝𝙡𝙖 𝙗𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘 refers to an 𝙞𝙣𝙫𝙞𝙨𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙖𝙜𝙞𝙘 𝙙𝙤𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙞𝙙𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙥𝙚. This piece explores the idea of Manchán Magan’s work acting as a conduit or portal from this world to 𝘼𝙣 𝙎𝙖𝙤𝙡 𝙀𝙞𝙡𝙚, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙊𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙.

Manchán’s writings and teachings are connecting us back to what lies beyond, through the natural landscape and through our language.

You can find more of my encaustic miniature paintings dotted around the gallery! This piece is “Tír Faoi Thoinn”- Land Under the Wave

“Inis Subha” - Island of Joy

12/10/2026

I have two class dates in Clonakilty for iron painting with melted beeswax! This type of encaustic painting is playful and accessible - complete beginners welcome 🥰 It’s a really fun and experimental way of painting that gets you into the creative flow.

DM me or follow the link in my bio to book through my website. Only 3 spaces left for tomorrow’s class!

08/10/2026

Hello October! Usually when I am quiet on social media it means I am busy in real life 🤪 I take small snippets of time to paint or craft or work on something creative to help keep me sane amidst the chaos that life as a mother of four brings.

With the Clonakilty Artists Together (C.A.T) we are so lucky to have a fantastic space in the temporary new Gallery Asna to paint in every Thursday, share a cuppa and chat about exhibitions and projects that we are working on. If it weren’t for this group, I don’t know if I would manage to set time aside for my encaustic wax painting to actually finish pieces! Here are a few pieces I completed recently during our Thursday sessions- the first one is pigmented beeswax on a tiny wood panel which I had started ages ago and got “stuck” on. I’m delighted that I came back to it today and changed up the colour palette to finish it off. Very pleased with it now! I’ve done some mini dreamscapes on paper too, in limited colour palettes. Restricting the number of colours in a piece really helps me to focus and get into the flow, thinking carefully about the composition and the contrast between light and dark.

Swipe to the last photo to see a different type of piece that I am working on! This is an old project that used to be an automata (a moving toy) but was never in a finished and stable state, so I am giving it a new life as a layered scene in a box frame.

24/09/2026

I finally completed a set of 3 wax paintings that sit well together! They are especially for a triptych frame that I want to fill.

Some days I reach for a simpler palette, limited to two colours. Today I used metallic silver and indigo, which looks black when it’s in the block form.

I challenged myself to create a mini landscape using a single colour and I think it turned out lovely!

19/09/2026

Much celebration this evening as the Autumn Members’ Exhibition opened at Clonakilty Community Arts Centre this evening! I have two encaustic wax dreamscapes for sale in the exhibition. So happy to be part of it

18/09/2026

Delighted to have a mini duo exhibition with fellow local artist Will C. Dahm in cosy WAZZY WOO for the month of September. Grab a delicious Stone Valley Coffee Roasters coffee with a plant-based cake and sit down to admire the art on the walls in one of Clonakilty’s most loved cafés.

Will C. Dahm paints beautiful scenes from nature in oils, echoing the landscape around us. Encaustic wax dreamscapes by Natalie Dwyer | Encaustic Artist, Designer & Miniaturist spark the imagination and evoke a sense of awe and wonder. We are both members of Gallery Asna and paint alongside one another in the Clonakilty Artists Together (C.A.T) group which meets every Thursday in the new temporary arts centre space at 8 Kent Street, Clonakilty.

Each of the original art pieces are for sale and available to purchase directly from the artists - prices and details are beside each painting. If you aren’t in Clonakilty and one of our pieces has caught your eye, do get in touch and we will arrange to get the painting to you!

Huge thanks to Liam and the team at WAZZY WOO for hosting us on the walls!

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