Work samples
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
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.
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Attention Costco Shoppers
36 x 48" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023
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North Avenue Storm Drain II
36x36" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2025
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North Avenue Storm Drain I
36x36" oil on canvas, 2025
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Verdura
24x48" oil and acrylic on canvas
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Race Rock
8 x 8" oil on board, 2024
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Across The Cove
8x8" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2024
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Ocean Blue
8x8" oil and acrylic on board, 2024
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Zero Sort
48 x 30" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2023
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Caution
30x60" oil and acrylic on canvas, 2022
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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.
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Longer Days
40x40" oil on canvas, 2022
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All Things Go
40x40" oil on canvas, 2022
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On the Way
30x30", oil on canvas, 2023
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Small Satisfaction
30x40" oil on canvas, 2023
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Mood
24x36"oil on canvas, 2023
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Mirror, Mirror
30 x 36" oil on linen, 2025
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Wilderness Retreat
36x36" oil on canvas, 2022
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Cynar
30x30" oil on canvas, 2024
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Labor Day
30x40" oil on canvas, 2025
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You Never Know
20x30" oil on canvas, 2024