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These light and floaty silk scarves are a delightful addition to your wardrobe and is your very own wearable piece of art! The gorgeous feathery details of the morepork reveal themselves in the different ways you style it, and opening it out completely will expose the whole artwork in its full beauty. These statement scarves are printed on soft and luxurious silk chiffon and delicately finished with a hand-rolled hem.

This artwork was based on a very special morepork from Wingspan Birds of Prey Trust; to celebrate Wingspan’s 30th anniversary this year, 10% of every sale is being donated towards to their amazing conservation efforts!

Important details: This scarf is limited edition and is only going to be available to purchase until the 8th of November 2022. These scarves are made to order and will be delivered around early to mid-December 2022. After this one week pre-sale, these scarves will no longer be available and will not be produced again.

• Price – $300

• Fabric – 100% silk chiffon

• Size – 160cm x 120cm

• Care – dry clean only and warm, dry iron as required

More about the special meaning behind this artwork:

‘Whisper’ was a well-known morepork/ruru (native NZ owl) based at Wingspan National Bird of Prey Centre, that truly touched the hearts of many, all around the globe. Wingspan is located in Rotorua and helps our native birds of prey, through breeding programs, rehabilitation of injured birds, education and advocacy. This artwork is a special tribute to what an incredible bird she was – an advocate for her species, a foster mother to other ruru chicks, and a dear friend to the Wingspan team. She was brought into Wingspan by a forestry worker in 2007 as an egg, and was artificially incubated and hand-reared. She has provided a wealth of knowledge for studying the habits and behaviours of ruru. Sadly, Whisper passed away on the 9th of September 2020; she will be missed by many.

The original artwork was drawn in A2 size over July to September 2020, from a reference photograph Hannah took when she met Whisper in 2019. One of Hannah’s primary goals as an artist is to raise awareness and funds for conservation organisations doing great things, so she was so proud to be able to donate $1,929 to Wingspan from her initial Whisper print sales.

If you’d like to find out more about the work Wingspan does please visit their website here. You can support them further by becoming one of their members or sponsors, donating directly, volunteering or buying a gift voucher.

If you’d like to read more about Whispers story, please see the NZ Herald article written about her here, or about Hannah’s Wingspan fundraiser please see here.