Hannah's Creatures

26/08/2026

Be still my beating heart.
A hooded vulture commission & I’ve loved every minute of recreating her. Her head is an artificial one which I casted & modified as she had a slight deformity to one side of her jaw but I’m happy with how the cast has come out. Her wings were resting me at times but I got there in the end. Positioning her plumage was fun,her neck feathers needed to be in certain places with fluff & then a ruffled collar of feathers.
Exotics own my heart,they’re my favourite to give a second life to, more exotics please! Can I manifest some big beautiful horn bills? How id love to work on hornbills 🫶🏻
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19/08/2026

A dark & mysterious buzzard for my client. Cast & hand painted head by myself,something I’m bringing into new work.
Roadkill birds of prey are very common,especially buzzards. Buzzards feed exclusively off carrion aka dead ‘off’ creatures & those are usually found on the road or on the roadside. Buzzards will see a green & somewhat bubbling green badger & go ‘that’s the best looking steak I’ve ever seen’ & go & feed from it. But that buzzard picking off roadkill runs the potential of becoming roadkill itself,a very sad but true fact. Getting unalived for a bit of rancid badger,yikes.
I always try to remove roadkill & place it somewhere safer for corvids & buzzards/kites to have a meal but I’m talking safer roads, not cartwheeling across the carriage way on the M11 to remove something as you’ll become roadkill too. As Nigel the pelican (finding Nemo) said ‘fish has gotta swim,birds gotta eat’ so giving them a safe meal is being kind in nature.
Commission work,not for sale,just showing an example of my work 🍃
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17/08/2026

A handsome gentleman for my client. He was found was in the grounds of their house & wanted his beauty preserving. He was perfectly untouched from the outside, I had previously visited my clients house so I had my suspicions that he had been clipped by a car & came to rest in the grave yard, my suspicions were confirmed & he had internal damages from impact with a vehicle. It didn’t affect his beauty,not a feather out of place
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I am back at work,I have been for a few weeks but my brain got the better of me & I didn’t feel confident to share my work,brains are fun like that. It’s been a fun few months, my body did this thing where it threw out a cancer scare, it really likes to do that every few years just to keep me on my toes. No cancer but some very horrid looking lumps in my stomach which I’m hoping will get treated & I can get back to feeling sub human.
My commissions are open but please don’t expect a 2 day turn around,I don’t rush my work & I have to be sensible with my body as I have had to scale day my work days as fatigue is a bum.
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02/06/2026

I have been inactive with posting recently but I’m still here. I’m navigating a patch of up & down health so I’m working on smaller things which will blend into the future of Hannah’s Creatures. Future? Nothing scary. I’ve learnt casting recently (something I’ve always wanted to learn) & I’ve enjoyed it so much that it’s going to become 2 ventures which will run alongside my taxidermy work. I’ve been casting bodies in bulk as I struggle with my wonky claws & carving so I’m trying to make my work more accessible to me. I’m also casting & using replica heads which give me more precision & no risk of anything being left in the head of a mount. I will be selling replica heads in a web shop in the near future for people to buy & use if they so wish of if you just want a replica of a bird noggin. I’m also going to be casting rocks,habitat,fish & reptiles which will also run along side the replica heads. We don’t have a huge supply of taxidermy components in the UK so I’m pushing the boat out a bit to offer some UK made supplies. I’m also going to be casting mammals,I will develop them alongside practicing mammal work, another thing I’ve wanted to get into.
Why am I doing all this? With fluctuating health & an NHS waiting list as long as the Lochness monster, it’s giving me the opportunity to work on things when I’m not feeling upto mounting birds. Being neurospicy,I stress over my work not being good enough which adds extra fatigue to my already tired brain & im a sucker for not wanting to put work in the fridge over night because I worry it’ll balls it up. Honestly,I hate my brain too.
I’m still taking on comissions but I’m doing them here & there when I feel level enough to mount them, I put my heart & soul into a mount & need to feel in the right place to put them together. If I do a freelance piece & it buggers up then it’s not the end of the world but a clients piece,big huge massive end of the world. So please don’t expect my turn around to be 3 days, if you want asap & done yesterday then please find an artist who has shorter books because I can’t guarantee & accomodate a quick turn around, I have to be kinder to myself & for the future 🔮
H x

26/05/2026

Just a quick one regarding Suffolk show 🍃

Unfortunately I’m not trading this year as I thought I was going to be off my feet for a few weeks so didn’t book anything in for 2026 but plans had other ideas. I plan to attend as a spectator on Thursday in all my spooky gothness as hubby is on the bonsai stand in the flower tent so go find him & point at his tiny trees over both days!
I hope to be trading at the 2027 show 💚

26/04/2026

21/04/2026

Welcome to my little bubble of gothic heaven 🖤