Work samples

  • Attention Costco Shoppers
    Attention Costco Shoppers

    oil and acrylic on canvas, 36x48" 2023

    Available for Purchase
  • Zero Sort
    Zero Sort

    oil and acrylic on canvas, 48x30" 2023

    Available for Purchase
  • Across The Cove
    Across The Cove

    8x8", oil on board, 2024

    Available for Purchase
  • North Avenue Storm Drain
    North Avenue Storm Drain

    oil on canvas, 36x36" 2025

    Available for Purchase

About Julia

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… more

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Trash

A series of abstract paintings derived from images of refuse accumulated at the edges of rivers and streams, along shorelines and over storm drains. This series explores the concept of Nature as Artist; throwing back our waste in new compositions in which the original utility of the item has been completely effaced, while it now exists as a component of an abstracted landscape.

  • Attention Costco Shoppers
    Attention Costco Shoppers

    36 x 48" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023

  • North Avenue Storm Drain II
    North Avenue Storm Drain II

    36x36" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025

  • North Avenue Storm Drain I
    North Avenue Storm Drain I

    36x36" oil on canvas, 2025

  • Verdura
    Verdura

    24x48" oil and acrylic on canvas

  • Race Rock
    Race Rock

    8 x 8" oil on board, 2024

  • Across The Cove
    Across The Cove

    8x8" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2024

  • Ocean Blue
    Ocean Blue

    8x8" oil and acrylic on board, 2024

  • Zero Sort
    Zero Sort

    48 x 30" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023

  • Caution
    Caution

    30x60" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2022

  • Tangled Web
    Tangled Web

    30 x 40" oil on canvas, 2022

Romantic Landscape

A series of self-consciously old-fashioned landscapes emphasizing the crucial importance of Nature as a palliative to contemporary social malaise.

  • Longer Days
    Longer Days

    40x40" oil on canvas, 2022

  • All Things Go
    All Things Go

    40x40" oil on canvas, 2022

  • On the Way
    On the Way

    30x30", oil on canvas, 2023

  • Small Satisfaction
    Small Satisfaction

    30x40" oil on canvas, 2023

  • Mood
    Mood

    24x36"oil on canvas, 2023

  • Mirror, Mirror
    Mirror, Mirror

    30 x 36" oil on linen, 2025

  • Wilderness Retreat
    Wilderness Retreat

    36x36" oil on canvas, 2022

  • Cynar
    Cynar

    30x30" oil on canvas, 2024

  • Labor Day
    Labor Day

    30x40" oil on canvas, 2025

  • You Never Know
    You Never Know

    20x30" oil on canvas, 2024