Catherine Gallagher is a digital illustrator from Faial, whose work combines scientific detail with intense and surreal images. Inspired by her childhood spent between marine biology and fishing, she creates pieces that explore the tension between marine life and the way humans transform it — sometimes confrontational, sometimes humorous. She always starts with pencil sketches, which she then develops digitally in Clip Studio Paint, Procreate, and Adobe Illustrator, balancing precision with distortion to provoke, question, and reinvent the way we see the natural world. She is also exploring ways to bring her visual style to the world of fashion, drawing on her training in the field.