Alexandra says:

I like miniatures because they are inherently funny. All my pieces are little jokes or ‘What If?’ stories. They come from and prompt imagination.  Like, What if you left a chair out, abandoned in the garden to the elements? What new life could come and inhabit it? In miniature, you can play with scale, with form, material and with technique to make something fantastical. That’s what makes them so exciting. I get totally lost when I am making, into the world I am trying to create, I think that is why it is so addictive. With this mossy chair, first, I was thinking, it’s a chair that has been sat in a lot, so it’s slightly worn down and saggy in places, and the cat has been scratching at the side. Then, maybe some of the springs popped out and that’s when the owners said, ‘Oh, we can keep this anymore, so let’s put it out’. So, it’s been left out in the garden and got damp and that’s why you can see the water has started to drip down the side. That’s also when things have started to grow! Mushrooms, snails, bugs…This chair might just have plants and insects, but others are home to baby dragons, octopuses, leopards and vultures – whatever comes to me! My pieces make me laugh while I am making them and then they make other people laugh because they are full of surprises. I got into making miniatures when I was going through a difficult time in life, following a death. They saved me really, allowed me to connect with the magic in the world again. Miniature worlds are where I go for hope in dark times.