about

Hello!

Thank you for visiting Farm House Prints. I’m Courtney Allenson, and I live in the inspirational Green Mountains of Vermont with my husband, our two young children, and an ever-growing flock of sweet laying hens.  We love creating (my husband owns White Oak Construction, LLC.), exploring the mountains, woods, fields and streams around us, and cherishing our family and friends.

My passion for creating began at an early age when my parents taught me to sew. My mother—quilts and clothing; and my father—toys. I still have a red fabric dog bone that I watched my father make in the “sewing room.” My father (owner of Blair Hill Construction, LLC.) helped me build jewelry boxes, shelves, bookcases, and whatever else came into my imagination. At home with my mother (founder of the women’s outdoor clothing line Trailfeathers, LLC.) each summer, our days were sprinkled with art projects—filling sketch books with project ideas and new fonts, taking painting lessons, designing cards to sell, and making jewelry.

In college, I experimented with oil paints, dipped wax sculpture, paper making, collage and photography. Finally, on domestic exchange to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst I found—and fell in love with—printmaking. Carving blocks of wood was satisfying and therapeutic. The pure magic of seeing my carving come to life as the first touches of ink were rolled across it was thrilling (and still is)! I came back to Vermont, to Saint Michael’s College, in the fall of 2003 to finish my BA in Studio Arts with a concentration in printmaking. I have been carving and printing ever since.

While I continue to work on my new prints, one of my greatest sources of joy and inspiration comes from creating for and with my children. Together we fill our home and our lives with the products of our hands, hearts and imaginations. We create because we were meant to. I hope to share some of our creative spirit with you.