JULIA PURINTON
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BIO
Julia Purinton spent her childhood in Virginia and Pennsylvania, graduated from Harvard College with a degree in Fine Arts, pursued a course of study at the School of Fine Arts in New York City, and now divides her time between Washington, DC and Vermont's Mad River Valley.
Frequently exhibiting in support of environmental causes throughout New England and the Mid-Atlantic region, Purinton has been featured at Essex County Greenbelt’s Art in the Barn, The Trustees of Reservations’ Crane Estate Art Show and the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, MD.
Purinton's paintings have been selected for exhibition at the Vermont State House, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts State House, the University of Vermont Hospital (Burlington, VT,) Green Mountain Cultural Center (Waitsfield, VT,) North Country Cultural Center for the Arts (Plattsburgh, NY,) Metropolitan Life (Montpelier, VT,) Burlington Center for the Arts (Burlington, VT,) and Glen Echo Park (Washington, DC.)
Her decorative painting company, Medusa Studio, provides custom murals for commercial and private interiors across the country, twice winning Best of Boston Awards for murals and decorative paint finishes.
“Having evolved from hunter-gatherers, humans learned to think in nature.
The devastation of our habitats causes distress and despair, and we naturally find solace in the experience of landscape. Utilizing a familiar vernacular of landscape imagery, I explore psychological passage and growth: finding joy, accepting loss, releasing regret. In the way that fairy tales metaphorically dramatize real life, my paintings illuminate aspects of personal endeavor.
Whether the image is a shoreline or a forest, my subject is the importance of nature as a palliative to contemporary social malaise; each piece a meditation on the commonality of human response to the majesty and beauty of the natural world.”