Rebecca Alexandra

Rebecca Alexandra Paper botanicals shaped by hand

Aaargh!!It’s been so long in Instagram time since I posted a post that there’s new buttons and options!!Single caption o...
18/08/2026

Aaargh!!
It’s been so long in Instagram time since I posted a post that there’s new buttons and options!!

Single caption or multiple caption?!

Can’t I just add pictures (with no writing!), randomly word dump what I wanted to say (which is now lost to the fog due to new decisions needing to be made!) and walk away, letting the magic and mystery of instagram decide the rest?!

No?!
That’s not a strategy?!

Well that’s a bit (fill in word of choice) then.

I think what I was intending to say is, I’m here, I’m working away on new pieces, tinkering with my website, making plans, building up the confidence to shout from the rooftops about said plans, all while hosting visits and planning outings and general summer holidays chaos.

These pictures show a flower I’m just finishing off. I love the movement and texture I’ve created in the petals. I can’t wait to share it with you soon.

Summer Hedgerow in Paper.As we walked our favourite walk a few weeks ago (although it feels much longer now given how dr...
16/07/2026

Summer Hedgerow in Paper.

As we walked our favourite walk a few weeks ago (although it feels much longer now given how dry and crispy everything has become), the hedgerows were full of life.

The heady scent of honeysuckle. Bees disappearing inside foxgloves. Hundreds of delicate pink dog roses. Buttercups dancing through the grasses. Fresh oak shoots glowing bright green, tipped with coppery red. Swallows swooping low.

I wanted to keep that moment, so I created a version that would last, working from cuttings brought home and a camera roll full of pictures.

The horror on my husbands face though when I insisted on bringing bindweed home……..

This arrangement is now on my website. Link in the bio.

I’d really like to say we spent a lovely morning slowly wandering round my favourite place, Ness Botanic Gardens, but it...
04/07/2026

I’d really like to say we spent a lovely morning slowly wandering round my favourite place, Ness Botanic Gardens, but it didn’t turn out quite like that.

All was going well until we reached the Mexican border. It seemed as soon as we crossed, the horseflies were alerted and came out in force to chase us off!!

Luckily it seems none of us were bitten!

And we did manage to see the cutest little ducklings.

Whilst looking at plants for my garden, I came across an image of white anemones, a variety called Galilee. They were st...
15/06/2026

Whilst looking at plants for my garden, I came across an image of white anemones, a variety called Galilee. They were stunning but I knew planting them in my garden would simply be feeding the slugs!

So I made my own anemones inspired by that picture.

Although I finished these over a week ago, something stopped me sharing them. They didn’t feel quite right. After a week of staring at them, tweaking, pondering, it was a simple change that finally brought the whole composition together.

This piece can be found on my website along with other available works.

Peony.They have to be one of my favourite flowers.From the tight, rounded bud that slowly unfurls into hundreds of petal...
05/06/2026

Peony.

They have to be one of my favourite flowers.

From the tight, rounded bud that slowly unfurls into hundreds of petals, to the way their colours soften and change as they age.

This particular study was inspired by a vase of peonies on my desk. Day by day the flowers opened wider, the petals becoming softer, paler and more translucent as they caught the light.

I wanted to capture that brief moment just before the petals begin to fall. Not the newly opened bloom, but the stage where the flower feels at its fullest - abundant, unruly, and to me, at its most beautiful.

The latest in my framed collection are these foxgloves.I love foxgloves, especially the variety these were inspired by -...
07/05/2026

The latest in my framed collection are these foxgloves.

I love foxgloves, especially the variety these were inspired by - Digitalis purpurea ‘Dalmatian Peach’ . I would love a garden full of towering foxgloves, but every time I’ve planted them, they never return.

It’s the soft colour and the speckled detail in the throats that I’m drawn to. They always make me think of Beatrix Potter and old country cottages.

Here, I’ve tried to capture that and arrange them so they feel like you could walk through them, push them to the side, and find more beyond.

I like the way framing them like this creates shadows and depth, with the light shifting the feel of the piece throughout the day.

Maybe one day I’ll get them to come back in the garden. Any tips?!

Until then …. Paper it is!!!

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