"I have vivid early memories of visiting the Orthodox Cathedral in Knightsbridge where the interior was dark and mysterious and the icons, richly jewelled and golden, were illuminated by red glass votive lights. I paint directly onto glass because it has a lustre and clarity that allows the colours and gilding materials to respond and react dramatically to light."
Alexandra is of Russian ancestry and after a career that spanned working on a sailing schooner in the West Indies, working in the fashion marketing world, and setting up a dyslexic support group, she turned to the decorative arts in 1992. After a degree in Woven Textile Design at Loughborough, Alexandra continued teaching and working with specialist decorative arts such as marbling and gilding. It was in 1998 that she first started working on glass bowls, soon graduating to sheets of glass. The majority of her work is to commission and she is constantly experimenting with new techniques. Alexandra was selected for the Mall Galleries exhibition The Discerning Eye, 2001. She has exhibited in the USA and Japan and continues to show with us at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea.
Alexandra's work ranges from around £500-£2500.
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"I have vivid early memories of visiting the Orthodox Cathedral in Knightsbridge where the interior was dark and mysterious and the icons, richly jewelled and golden, were illuminated by red glass votive lights. I paint directly onto glass because it has a lustre and clarity that allows the colours and gilding materials to respond and react dramatically to light."
Alexandra is of Russian ancestry and after a career that spanned working on a sailing schooner in the West Indies, working in the fashion marketing world, and setting up a dyslexic support group, she turned to the decorative arts in 1992. After a degree in Woven Textile Design at Loughborough, Alexandra continued teaching and working with specialist decorative arts such as marbling and gilding. It was in 1998 that she first started working on glass bowls, soon graduating to sheets of glass. The majority of her work is to commission and she is constantly experimenting with new techniques. Alexandra was selected for the Mall Galleries exhibition The Discerning Eye, 2001. She has exhibited in the USA and Japan and continues to show with us at the Affordable Art Fair, Battersea.
Alexandra's work ranges from around £500-£2500.
