After leaving college Alex exhibited throughout the eighties. Her work began with
views into and through buildings, sometimes incorporating landscape views.
She also worked figuratively exploring the people around her and her relationship
to them.
By the early nineties, working as a teacher while trying to continue her career
as an artist took its toll and she was diagnosed with ME. Subsequent recovery
was slow, and so it was not until the late nineties that she began to exhibit
once more.
Sculptural ceramic work began ... "as a response to the plight of women in
Afghanistan. Their treatment by men echoed my own childhood experiences".
A piece called `Women of Kabul' consisted of three smoke-fired ceramics,
enclosed within a metal structure to represent a jail. From these Alex was
commissioned to stage an exhibition at Gloucester Road Underground.
"I
developed larger vessels using the coiling method, in various coloured
clays. Eighteen of these were shown at Gloucester Road Underground Station
titled `Women of Clay'".
The 'Moongazer', 'Flowergirl' and 'Wistful' characters are an evolution of this earlier work.
Alex has been inspired by the people and landscapes from the north of Scotland, London, Wiltshire and Wales. Alex now lives with her husband near Llandysul Ceredigion, Wales.
