Winter 2026
See you in Rocky Mountain National Park!
I'm thrilled to announce that I will be attending an artist residency from July 7 to July 21 in Rocky Mountain National Park - one of six chosen out of 150 applicants!
In addition to living in a historic cabin on the park for two weeks, I will be hosting two events during my residency for the public:
"Beneath Your Boots: Illustrating the Tiny World That Holds the Rockies Together"
BMVC Speaker Series
Sunday July 12th @1pm (60-90 minutes)
In this lecture laced with botanic illustration and sketches from her time in the park, Alexandra Bassett invites us to explore the hidden "microlandscapes" of the Rockies. Revealing through her own sketches, studies, and drawings, she ruminates on the silent world of the lichens, mushrooms, and mosses that sustain life in our parks - important enablers of terrestrial life. She traces the life cycles of these remarkable decomposing organisms — where they live, how they grow, and the extraordinary ways they survive and thrive — to illuminate the vital role each one plays in the interconnected web of the ecosystem. With a gentle urgency, she also turns attention to the impact of human presence on these fragile communities and to hold that awareness with us every time we step into the natural world.
"Reveal: A Watercolor Experience Inspired by Nature's Smallest Wonders"
FRVC Interactive Program
Saturday July 18th 11am-2pm
Beneath the canopy of every park lives a hidden world — one that asks nothing of us and yet gives everything. Mosses, mushrooms, and lichens move in slow, silent rhythms, nourishing the soil and the air and the life that depends on them, largely unseen and rarely celebrated. In this activity, visitors are invited to pause and truly look, borrowing samples from the park's own collection or studying photographs of these silent organisms before capturing their outlines in watercolor. Using masking fluid and frisket, each person creates the delicate silhouette of a moss, a mushroom, a patch of lichen — and in the negative space left behind, the real subject reveals itself: the invisible, the overlooked, the essential. The paint dries in minutes, but what the visitor takes home is something more lasting — a small, luminous reminder that the most vital forces in nature are often the ones we never think to notice.
