Amy Hook-Therrien

Amy is a Vermont artist whose watercolors and pen-and-ink drawings are inspired by the natural landscape.

As a kid, Amy lived on a 180-acre farm in Chelsea, Vermont. She spent a lot of time outdoors. Her father taught her woodworking, her mother taught her to identify plants and birds. “You can see her mother’s influence in her subject matter,” says the artist Joan Feierabend, who taught Amy at Chelsea Elementary School. “Amy’s work is all about observing nature very, very carefully and specifically.”

Shirly Hook, Amy’s mother, is an Abenaki citizen whose activities today include teaching fly-fishing to cancer survivors, writing books, and planting an harvesting a tribal garden. In 2019, mother and daughter collaborated on My Bring Up, a collection of stories about their family roots. Amy’s pen-and-ink drawings accompanied her mother’s prose. A broken branch symbolized the break in their family tree in the 1930s, when Vermont legalized the involuntary sterilization of Abenaki citizens.

To see Amy's work, visit her website: https://amyhooktherrien.com