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# 🌿 Stefanie Pullin: A Lisbon-Based Painter Redefining Nature in Contemporary Art
- URL: https://www.catapult-platform.art/stefanie-pullin-artist/
- Published: 2025-06-10T10:00:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-14T16:31:08.000Z
- Description: Stefanie Pullin explores the sacred tensions between instinct, nature, and memory in lush, haunted canvases that blur reality with reverie. A new voice from Lisbon, grounded in roots, ruin, and radical slowness.
- Author: Dominique Catherina Foertig
- Tags: Featured

## From Guatemala to Lisbon: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Landscape and Memory

Born in Guatemala in 1991 and based in Lisbon since 2010, [**Stefanie Pullin** ](https://www.stefaniepullin.com/?fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAacbV4MkyFM9TcUbZawP71zq9FkajvgIUdECbx8LMNvCW7PDpwqvRXhGuyy-ig%5Faem%5FAmCqfNqdynHjY7R-f0tvpQ&ref=catapult-platform.art)brings a rare visual language to the world of **contemporary painting**. 

![Stefanie Pullin ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/stefanie-pullin-1.webp)

****Stefanie Pullin in her Lisbon studio, 2024** Pictured with one of her large-format forest paintings, Pullin’s practice balances intuition and precision, memory and terrain. Her studio becomes a site of quiet immersion—where the jungle is not observed, but lived. **Image courtesy of the artist Stefanie Pullin. Used with permission.*

![landscape artist now](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/stefanie-pullin-artist-1.webp)

****Installation View –** ***Inferno Verde / Paraíso Perdido** @galeriasaomamede | “The only rupture in this landscape is the presence of **Heliconia Rostrata*—flame-like flowers native to South and Central America. Known in Brazil as pássaros-de-fogo and bananeira-do-mato, these vivid blooms mark a rhythm deep in the forest, blending memory and mirage. Though they’re national flowers of Bolivia and Peru, their name nods to Mount Helion in Greece—once believed to be home to Apollo and the muses.” — Words by Cristiana Tejo | Image courtesy of Stefanie Pullin. Used with permission.

![Installation fragment with two canvases placed in dialogue across a space, installation view](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/new-artist-landscape.webp)

Stefanie Pullin: ****Installation View –** ***Inferno Verde / Paraíso Perdido** @galeriasaomamede Image Courtes and permission of the artist

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/stefanie-pullin-2.webp)

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****Stefanie Pullin in her Lisbon studio** A glimpse into the process behind works like **Inferno Verde / Paraíso Perdido* — where intuition, memory, and botanical mythologies converge. Her practice unfolds slowly: one brushstroke, one threshold at a time. **Image courtesy of Stefanie Pullin. Used with permission*

![stefanie pullin](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/landscape-artist-today.webp)

****Stefanie Pullin:** Untitled Mixed media on canvas 145x190cm -> Image permission and courtesy of the artist

Her works don’t just depict nature—they listen to it. Educated at Ar.Co Academy and the University of Fine Arts in Lisbon, with further studies at the **University of Paris**, Pullin merges **Central American sensitivity** with European art education, forming a uniquely reflective visual practice.

[Stefanie Pullin - Biography, Shows, Articles & More | ArtsyExplore Stefanie Pullin’s biography, achievements, artworks, auction results, and shows on Artsy.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/icon/favicon-6.svg)Artsy![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/thumbnail/-7)](https://www.artsy.net/artist/stefanie-pullin?ref=catapult-platform.art)

Stefanie Pullin on Artsy

Her paintings unfold like whispered memories—lush, layered, often haunting. Whether she’s working on large-format oil paintings, installations, or visual diaries, the recurring question in her work is: *what does it mean to truly see the natural world, rather than just observe it?*

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/stefanie-pullin-.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/new-landscape-artist.webp)

Stefanie Pullin in her Studio -> Courtesy and Permission by the Artist

![stefanie pullin artist](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/stefanie-pullin-artist.webp)

Stefanie Pullin Studio View Image Courtesy of the Artist 

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### Painting the Space Between: What Makes Stefanie Pullin's Work So Resonant

Pullin’s studio practice, currently based in **Lisbon’s contemporary art scene**, is rooted in slow looking. 

![painting space between, what makes Stefanie Pullin work so resonant](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/landscape-painting.webp)

Stefanie Pullin doesn’t decorate nature. She decodes it.

Her recent paintings, often large-scale and immersive, don’t reveal themselves easily. 

> “I’m not interested in recording what nature looks like—but in what emanates from it,” she says.  
> That quiet but radical intention runs through every brushstroke.

They shimmer somewhere between the figurative and the abstract: jungle flora, stone ruins, water surfaces, all rendered in painterly rhythms that mimic rainfall, erosion, and time.

![View of Stefanie Pullin standing in front of her large jungle-like canvas](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/new-faces-in-contemporary-art.webp)

****Stefanie Pullin** doesn’t paint trees. She paints the feeling of getting lost in them—and not wanting to be found.

One canvas might show the ruins of a temple half-swallowed by green—evoking not just landscape, but **Guatemala’s mythic geography**.

Others highlight the texture of a forest or the stillness of water, never offering full narrative, always insisting on presence.

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### Lisbon’s Emerging Artists: Stefanie Pullin and the Art of Slowness

In a fast-paced global art market, where Lisbon has become a hub for international residencies and artist collectives, Pullin’s practice stands out for its resistance to spectacle. Her work doesn’t scream. It *lingers*.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/best-landscape-artists.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/stefanie-pullin-3.webp)

When the Jungle Becomes a Journal: Inside Pullin’s Lush Mindscape (right) Studio View by [@hey\_itsmanu](https://www.instagram.com/hey%5Fitsmanu/?ref=catapult-platform.art)

![Tabletop in Stefanie Pullin's studio with sketches, books, and natural objects](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/emerging-art-from-portugal.webp)

Stefanie Pullin: Studio 'view - Image courtesy of the Artist

She paints not to decorate the natural world, but to engage with its **profound contradictions**: chaos vs. order, instinct vs. control, the **numinous** vs. the profane.

Her use of vertical brush marks, repetition, and semi-erased forms suggest memory, forgetting, and erosion—core themes in both contemporary eco-art and in Latin American visual traditions.

![Installation shot showing multiple works on canvas arranged in vertical rhythm](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/catapult-artist-list.webp)

**“The landscapes in this exhibition are not mere landscapes. At first glance, they might echo the visual reports of European travel painters, captivated by the lushness of tropical vegetation—often described as either green inferno or lost paradise. But this is a very different point of enunciation. Stefanie Pullin immerses us in gardens that weave together memory and fiction—a journey through time and space. The persistence of green is intentional, evoking regions where plants never lose their color or leaves, creating a kind of green monotony. The vertical lines in her compositions suggest humidity, fluidity, and the interconnectedness of air and root, movement and rootedness.”* — Cristiana Tejo

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/guatemala-new-artist.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/portugal-art-scene.webp)

**S/título (Untitled),* ***Stefanie Pullin** Mixed media on canvas, 144 × 155.5 cm "Being close to plants from their places of origin made them feel at home. It calmed them, consoled them, embraced them. Beyond the vibration of the vegetation, the temperature and humidity defied London’s climate—like a womb, a primal shelter for those tropical bodies..." Text by @cristianatejo | Image courtesy of Stefanie Pullin. Used with permission.

Her Lisbon-based installations often expand into three dimensions.

  
Archival tables, diagrams, field notes, and botanical sketches bring in a **research-based practice** that echoes both ethnography and poetry.

  
She invites you not only to look—but to inhabit the work.

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### Between the Real and the Imagined: Ecology in Contemporary Painting

What makes her work so emotionally compelling is how it balances **conscious control with organic intuition**. 

![Large-scale forest-inspired canvas by Stefanie Pullin in progress on easel](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/emerging-artist.webp)

She constructs through rhythm and color, allowing each piece to oscillate between clarity and mystery. Pullin’s paintings don’t flatter—they *confront*.

> "Her canvases feel like rituals disguised as landscapes. They aren’t just painted—they’re conjured." — curator note

She has exhibited widely—**from Lisbon and Oporto to Paris, Málaga, and Guatemala City**—but her studio remains a site of introspection. 

![stefanie pullin exhibition](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/stefanie-pullin--exhibition.webp)

Exhibition view ****Galeria São Mamede** with works by ****Stefanie Pullin** \- Image courtesy of the artist. Used with permission.

Her painting process is tactile, messy, research-driven, and unusually committed to slow, **intentional** making.

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## Expanded Themes in Stefanie Pullin’s Work

**Nature as sentience, not scenery**  
She paints the forest not as a view—but as a force watching back.

**Perception as ritual**  
Her work explores the difference between looking, and truly seeing—where observation becomes reverence.

![perception as ritual](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/percepton-as-ritual.webp)

**Excerpt from Stefanie Pullin’s ongoing project “Travel Journal: Paths and Patterns” — an evolving installation that merges photography, writing, and drawing into a visual archive of landscapes, rituals, and reflective wandering. Influenced by Francesco Careri’s “Walkscapes” and Mircea Eliade’s “The Sacred and the Profane.”* **Image and text courtesy of the artist Stefanie Pullin. Used with permission +* [@martimdiasramos](https://www.instagram.com/martimdiasramos/?ref=catapult-platform.art)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/ecology-as-memory.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/sacred-as-subtle-resistance.webp)

**From Stefanie Pullin´s Project: “Travel Journal: Paths and Patterns” Image and text courtesy of the artist Stefanie Pullin. Used with permission +* [@martimdiasramos](https://www.instagram.com/martimdiasramos/?ref=catapult-platform.art)

**Ecology as memory site**  
Each layer suggests how nature stores time: decay, erosion, overgrowth as visual language.

**The sacred as subtle resistance**  
Against speed, clarity, and surface—her art offers quiet, slowness, and the ineffable.

**Presence as disruption**  
Human presence isn’t neutral—it alters, scars, rearranges. Her paintings trace that tension.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/stefanie-pullin--artist.webp)

Stefanie Pullin: **“Travel Journal: Paths and Patterns”* \- Permission and Courtesy by the Artist + [@martimdiasramos](https://www.instagram.com/martimdiasramos/?ref=catapult-platform.art)

**Painting as threshold**  
Not representation, but a liminal space—between the visible and the intuited, the natural and the mythic.

**Instinct vs. reason as aesthetic method**  
She navigates compositional tension between control and spontaneity, ritual and chaos.

![studio view, artist to watch Studio wall filled with reference photos, plant motifs, and visual notes](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/artist-studio.webp)

**“Travel Journal: Paths and Patterns”* Studio Installation view [@martimdiasramos](https://www.instagram.com/martimdiasramos/?ref=catapult-platform.art)

![Stefanie pullins path and patterns series, travel series, conceptual landscape art](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/ephemeral-as-form.webp)

**Installation view “Travel Journal: Paths and Patterns” - Permission and courtesy of* ****Stefanie Pullin** *\+* [@martimdiasramos](https://www.instagram.com/martimdiasramos/?ref=catapult-platform.art)

**The ephemeral as form**  
Pullin’s images are deliberately unstable—haunted by what disappears as much as what remains.

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### Artist Statement: The Invisible Currents of Stefanie Pullin’s Practice  

*“It is through her wandering experiences, the mental images given by her thoughts and the photographs of certain details and organic motifs that Stefanie Pullin creates.* 

![Detail of layered brushstrokes evoking vegetation and rainfall textures](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/female-landscape-artist-1.jpeg)

Stefanie Pullin Paints What the Forest Remembers - Permission and Courtesy of the Artist - [@****m.g.v.**](https://www.instagram.com/%5F%5Fm.g.v.%5F%5F/?ref=catapult-platform.art)

*Trying to understand the natural world, how we modify it by making ourselves present, occupying space, destroying and building; or what role instinct and feeling play in relation to reason, are some of the features that define her research.”*

![Stefanie Pullin painting in her Lisbon studio surrounded by green-toned canvases](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/new-female-artist-now.webp)

Stefanie Pullin Works in Prozess, Image Courtesy by the Artist

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/stefanie-pullin-4.webp)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1c/24/1c2478ff-417d-4e88-8226-288af467f6b9/content/images/2025/06/detail-of-a-painting.webp)

Stefanie Pullin -> Detail of her paintings Image courtesy of the artist

*“Her works explore the knowing how to see and knowing how to look… in a sensible search for the boundaries between the spiritual and the profane; order and chaos; consciousness and instinct.”*

Pullin’s work, ultimately, opens a space for reflection—on ecology, memory, and perception. In a world oversaturated with images, her art asks us to pause. To wonder. To remember how to feel awe.

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✨ Follow [**Stefanie Pullin on Instagram**](https://www.instagram.com/stefaniepullin/?ref=catapult-platform.art) to trace the evolution of her jungle-lit worlds — and step deeper into [**her work via her website**](https://www.stefaniepullin.com/?ref=catapult-platform.art). 

Let the stillness pull you in.

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