This Fredericksburg Artist Is Wowing L.A. With Her Hill Country–Inspired Paintings

Nothing will send someone to Zillow searching for Hill Country properties faster than a visit to the painter Kate Zimmerman Turpin’s home. Her light green house, with its vast yard, sits on a quiet and very Tree of Life–coded street in Fredericksburg. Inside, her husband, Luke, is currently occupying their two children; out back, an exterior white wall by the stairs is a murderous tableau of tiny muddy handprints. One of the family’s two dogs, a bloodhound named Dandy, stretches out in the backyard, her belly folded like bellows and her jowls pooling beneath her head. Across the backyard is a renovated square outbuilding—Zimmerman Turpin’s studio—with big casement windows that look out over a gray-and-brown winter scene. Periodically, the artist’s donkey, Romeo, a Christmas gift…

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