Hank’s style is a blend of realism and slight abstraction. The wood grain plays a major role in the sculpture’s design. The wood is finely sanded and finished with Tung oil.
Action is always a part of the sculpture’s composition – soaring petrels over oceanic waves, feeding sandpipers on mudflats, or owls on a branch looking out for prey.
Having grown up on the Atlantic coast in the State of Maine, shorebirds and oceanic birds are the most consistently chosen subjects.
Over the years, a number of themes evolved – sandpiper pairs, petrels in flight, partridge eating apples, turnstones and beach stones and owls.
Sooty Shearwater, Walnut
Sandpipers, Bubinga
Sandpipers, Osage Orange
Sandpipers, Bubinga
Sandpipers, Osage Orange
Sandpipers, Bubinga
Curlew, Bubinga
Sandpipers, Bubinga
Partridge eating apples, Walnut Rosewood Benge
Sandpipers, Bubinga
Sandpiper foot prints in mud, Osage Orange
Petrel, Brazilian Rosewood
Partridge eating apples, Benge
Petrel, Brazilian Rosewood
Partridge, Rosewood
Partridge eating Six Apples, Benge
Six Dunlin Sandpipers, Bubinga
Eight dunlin Sandipers
Partridge eating 2 apples, Black Walnut
Leachs-storm Petrel, Lignum Vitae
Leachs-storm Petrel, Brazilian Rosewood
Ruddy Turnstone, Brazilian Rosewood
Leachs-storm Petrel Brazilian Rosewood
Killdeer, Bubinga
Ruddy Turnstone, Cocobolo
Dunlin Sandpipers, Brazilian Rosewood
Dunlin Sandpiper with stones, Brazilian Rosewood
Dunlin Sandpipers, Bubinga
Dunlin Sandpiper Pair, Brazilian Rosewood
Dunlin Sandpipers, Bubinga
Hooded Plover, Lemon scented Gum
Hooded Plovers, Lemon scented Gum
Hooded Plovers, Lemon scented Gum
Hooded Plovers, Lemon scented Gum
Petrel, BlackWalnut
Ruddy Turnstone, Indian Rosewood
Ruddy Turnstone, Indian Rosewood
Ruddy Turnstone, Indian Rosewood