Katrina Pura is an American landscape and portrait painter based in the Central Coast of California.
She received a BS in science, technology and society from Stanford University, studied art history at Oxford University and graduated from the Florence Academy of Art’s three year classical painting program in 2018.
Using various mediums, including oil, graphite and watercolor, she finds particular inspiration in working from nature and in the rural scenes of her ranching heritage.
“I remember that the Gabilan Mountains to the east of the valley were light… full of sun and loveliness, and a kind of invitation, so that you wanted to climb into their warm foothills almost as you want to climb into the lap of a beloved mother”
(Steinbeck, East of Eden)