Baker Artist Portfolios

Julia Purinton spent her childhood in the Mid-Atlantic region, graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Fine Arts, pursued a course of study at the School for Visual Arts in New York City and now divides her time between Baltimore, MD and the Mad River Valley in Vermont.

Known primarily for traditionally romantic and luminous landscapes, focused on the emotional response of humans to the sublime in nature, Purinton has begun an exploration of more abstracted compositions. Some of these paintings examine scenes of ecological devastation created by forces of nature acting upon human refuse. Others portray the experience of living in a female body: gestural paintings inspired by the artist's journey through pregnancy, motherhood, menopause and assisting as a doula at the birth of her grandchild.