Julia Purinton is interested in distilling specific details of landscape without descriptive intent but with a narrative. By utilizing a familiar vernacular of landscape imagery, she explores psychological growth and passage; releasing regret, accepting loss and finding joy. Her artwork begins when a landscape resonates with her own psychological or emotional experience. Working in the studio from photographs and sketches over a period of weeks or even months, she strives to produce images that evoke memories and senses of moments. When his viewers are drawn to his images through recognition of the feeling he has created for a place, rather than of the specific landscape, he feels a rewarding sensation of having successfully shared both the commonality and the mystery of human experience. Purinton is a muralist and a fine artist. She divides her time between a small rural village in Vermont and the gentle landscape of north shore Boston.
Both places provide her with plenty of material for her reminiscent paintings of landscapes. Julia describes her studio in Massachusetts as “sanctuary, potting shed, dog kennel, and mud room." Working in Venetian plaster, acrylics, glaze and oils, her artwork has the incandescent glow of images by artists who influence her: Winslow Homer, Maxfield Parish, and the painters of Brandywine River School. She uses numerous layers of glaze to create for her landscapes the atmospheric moods. Julia’s artwork is found in galleries on the east coast. She uses for creating high quality fine art reproductions. This process makes her reproductions to be virtually indistinguishable from the original pieces.
