Ashland artist Claire Burbridge creates huge, meticulous illustrations that reveal the “strange, fascinating and abstract forms” of the natural world. She spends hours each day gathering leaves, seeds and fungus from forests near her home. Back in her studio she works for months creating elaborate mandala-like illustrations of overlapping points and lines, inspired by the objects she’s collected. Claire sees her work as a devotional practice, an opportunity to experience and reveal an “invisible intelligent matrix” that seems to underlie all life. Her work has shown at galleries and museums in both the US and England.