Original Artworks

Packaging of sold originals - 'Expecting' and 'A Pretty Perch'

Hannah creates large, intricately-detailed, fine-tip black pen original drawings, which are typically created over 4-16 weeks. Alongside drawing, Hannah dedicates time to researching, observing, and photographing the chosen birds to learn how to best depict their special characteristics into her artwork. She travels to remote locations throughout New Zealand to find rare and special birds to represent in her work.

Because of the level of detail required in each drawing, Hannah works from reference photos of birds and plants, and may combine multiple bird photos into a final composition. She aims to work from her own photographs, however occasionally will collaborate with other bird photographers if she is unable to photograph an endangered bird herself.

Due to the time involved in creating each artwork, Hannah is only able to draw 4-8 artworks per year. Artworks that are available to purchase are listed below and new artworks are shared on Instagram and Facebook as they are being created. If you would like to secure an artwork which is in progress, please reach out to Hannah for pricing and availability.

Artwork Requests

With the aforementioned limited artworks able to be created each year, Hannah is no longer taking on commission orders, however if you are interested in an original artwork of a specific bird, please get in touch. She is happy to contact clients when new artworks matching their requests are upcoming, being drawn, or available for purchase. The reason for this is so that Hannah can focus on creating her best works, as well as also having creative freedom to draw less well-known birds, which may not be ones which would be commissioned.

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Available Art

Tiny Titipounamu

A4 size original (unframed) - $2,800

Limited edition prints available here.

This artwork is of a male titipounamu/rifleman which is NZ’s smallest bird, drawn from a beautiful reference photograph by Wellington photographer Janice McKenna. ‘Titipounamu’ is derived from ‘tītiti’ (meaning ‘a mirage or vision of’), and ‘pounamu’ (greenstone/jade), which refers to the green plumage over the male’s head and back.

Titipounamu mate for life and are quite remarkable in that they form cooperative groups with unrelated birds (often bachelors) to take care of raising the chicks. ‘It takes a village’ in the bird world too! They are recognisable in both their appearance and size, being small and round, with short wings, a very short tail, and slightly upturned beak. Adults are 7- 9cm in length, which is up to 4 cm less than the riroriro/grey warbler; males weigh 6g and the females 7g (around half the weight of a tauhou/silvereye). Their call is so high pitched, that some people can’t hear it.

The first experience Hannah had seeing the titipounamu was at Zealandia shortly after their introduction of 60 birds to the sanctuary in 2019. With their success there, they are now not only breeding in Zealandia, but have been seen successfully breeding outside of it as well.