Painter Julia Purinton’s Mountaintop Studio Faces a Sweeping Valley in Vermont.
From this aerie view she paints from memories and from nature as she sees and imagines it. “It’s great to have source material right at hand. I take a lot of pictures when I’m out with my dogs in the morning or out the windows from my house. Early morning or late evening is a contemplative and meditative time and mood. That’s what interests me.” Julia has worked as a fine artist and muralist from a studio on the north shore of Massachusetts, and more recently from the mountains of Vermont. The woods, gardens and fields of her childhood memories are just as likely to show up in a painting today as the scene from her morning coffee break.