Visual artist Catriona Mckell Follow.Art Card

About me

🐾 As an artist and museum studies graduate, I’ve noticed a frustrating trend: people look at a painting of an animal for two seconds, think "that’s nice," and move on.
​My work is designed to break that habit and force you to look closer.
​I create tactile, multi-layered eco-art that translates cold scientific data into raw human emotion. 🎨 My process starts with deep research into a specific ecological crisis—like the deforestation threatening the Sumatran tiger.
​I build up each piece using:
​🔹 Fluid watercolor backgrounds to set the atmosphere.
​🔹 Linoprinting, monoprinting, and acrylics to bring the animals to life.
​🔹 Raw materials like corrugated cardboard to mimic fragile habitats.
​The twist? Look closer and you’ll find stark, ink-printed data or newspaper typography embedded right into the texture—facts like "400 left in the wild."
​By hiding the data inside the art, I want to transform you from a passive viewer into an informed witness. We can't protect what we choose to look past. 🌏
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