Amy Hook Therrien's artwork is on exhibit at LNT

Meet the Artist: Amy Hook Therrien

 

Noted Vermont landscape and natural world artist Amy Hook Therrien beautiful works are on display in the LNT Lobby Gallery!

Ms. Hook Therrien's work is part of  Lost Nation Theater's first MainStage Event of 2022: Alegwasimek 8thlokadin: Abenaki Artists Speak. 

 

Lost Nation Theater's artistic directors Kim A Bent and Kathleen Keenan have long wanted to spotlight Hook-Therrien's work with an exhibit and are overjoyed that it is happening now!

 

On display are the landscapes and close up details of birch trees and leaves for which the artist is best known.

Special for this exhibit, Hook Therrien is sharing several of the pen & ink sketches (see left) that she has done for fellow Abenaki citizens stories and other published writings - including "My Bring Up" by Shirly Hook.

The paintings in the exhibit are available for purchase.
In addition note cards, featuring the artist's renditions of birds as well as landscapes will be available. The note cards come in protective clear sleeves that are compostable (they're made from plants!)  

 

About the Artist

Amy Hook-Therrien is a Native Vermont watercolor artist, currently living in Windsor, VT. Originally from Chelsea, VT she grew up in the hills of the small town. She left Vermont to attend the University of Maine, where she obtained a BFA. Her focus is in watercolor, a medium she has been practicing for the past eleven years. Amy is inspired by the New England Landscape, and her work has been featured in Image Magazine, the Vermont Almanac Volume 2, and her illustrations sit on the pages of her mom’s book My Bring Up. She is a citizen of the Koasek Traditional Band of the Koas Abenaki Nation. In 2019 she was the Vermont Abenaki Artists Association’s Artist of the Year. Some of the galleries representing Amy are Collective in Woodstock, VT, AVA Gallery in Lebanon, NH, Long River Gallery in White River Junction, VT, Artisan’s Hand in Montpelier, VT, and Artisans’ Gallery in Waitsfield, VT. She has solo exhibitions coming up in July at North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier, and at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. This year she was chosen for the Artist in Residence position at Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park in Woodstock, VT where she will paint, teach classes and interact with visitors. 

Artist Statement

I have always been drawn to nature, I am always taking in my surroundings, taking the time to notice the small things.

Birch trees have been one of my main focuses for the past few years. They bring a sense of tranquility and fragility to a landscape. They sit quietly, giving a hint of color and their personality as their bark curls away. I thought I might get bored eventually, painting the same tree time after time might become a tedious exercise. It hasn't.

Every time I go out to investigate a landscape I always search for the unique, the imperfect, the undesirable even.

A broken branch, a torn leaf, a scarred tree, these are the things I look for. It’s the imperfect that makes nature so beautiful.

This is what captures my attention, what inspires me the most.

 

Artist Amy Hook Therrien poses for the camera after installing her artwork in LNT's Gallery space.