Consuelo Eames Hanks was born in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and attended schools in England, France and the United States. She received a Baccalaureate Degree from the Lycée Francaise de New York, and a Bachelor of Arts Degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Wheaton College in Massachusetts.

Ms. Hanks began painting while living in Japan. She is mostly a self-taught artist. She has done both magazine and book illustrations, including work for the prestigious New Yorker magazine and William W. Warner’s book Beautiful Swimmers.

Although she is best known for her pencil studies and fine drawings, Ms. Hanks’s delicately detailed watercolors have gained wide recognition. Prints of her paintings have enjoyed phenomenal success. Ms. Hanks states that her aim in her work is “to bring out the subtleties, gentleness and memories in things and places” rather than to create a dramatic or exciting emotional statement. And yet her work elicits a strong reaction in the viewer because of its nostalgic, often tender rendition of a particular timeless moment or situation. Ms. Hanks’s favorite subjects come from cruises along the Maine Coast on the family’s Friendship sloop.

    

    

TED HANKS is a master sculptor of wildlife. His work depicting black ducks jumping out of the pond at the famous L. L. Bean store is a sensation with visitors. His series of Canada Geese has its own inimitable charm, as each finely detailed goose has a different pose and a unique individual character all its own. Mr. Hanks also works in watercolors, painting maritime scenes. His work can be found on display at many inns and art galleries on the East Coast, as well as in the permanent collections of the Mystic Maritime Museum in Mystic, Connecticut and the Maritime Museum at Newport News, Virginia. He has illustrated several books with his fresh, freely painted watercolors.

“Skirting Sunken Ledges”
Watercolor, 13" x 20" ($975)

“The Bowdoin at Castine”
Watercolor, 10.5"x 14" ($975)