ALEXANDRA BASSETT

botanical and natural illustration

My studies within the visual arts are inspired and influenced by my studies in the sciences. By studying science, I learned that life is characterized by patterns and regulation. It is ordered, structured, and in constant resistance of entropy. It adapts to the environment it’s given with grace and resilience. This has been a consistent theme in my art, no matter the medium I choose.

While my art has always focused on the natural patterns of growth, I put special emphasis on the smaller, more discrete elements of an ecosystem.

So many gaze at the incredible panoramas that surround them as they immerse themselves in nature. I want to reveal a new perspective of nature - one of the “microlandscape.”