Julia Sutliff creates oil paintings of nature near her home north of Baltimore, Maryland. She prefers to paint outside, “en plein air,” and in one session. It seems to give her a greater appetite for risk and a better sense of how to capture the landscape in paint.

She is appreciated by collectors and fellow artists for her sense of color and her “flair for simplifying form and color in order to capture the essence of a scene.” One notes that “the energy in her brushstrokes takes me beyond Impressionism. It’s like Nature itself. Alive. So full of movement, always changing and evolving.” She has been noticed for having “an eye for the underlying beauty of landscapes that most of us would overlook” and painting“places that are unspectacular, often in areas where development encroaches on nature.” When viewing one of her paintings, says a collector, “I feel I’m reaching into the heart of that scene and feeling its pulse, its heartbeat.”

She has a BA in Modern Culture and Media from Brown, an MA in English from the University of Maryland, and an MA in Teaching from College of Notre Dame of Maryland; she also studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Maryland Institute College of Art. She has shown her work often in Maryland and nearby states including Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, and North Carolina.