Rebecca Alexandra

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Rebecca Alexandra

Botanical artistry in paper
Paper flowers & botanical art. Original handmade pieces and bespoke commissions.

10/10/2026

Saturday morning blowing away the cobwebs (and cold, hopefully!!) at Ness Botanic Gardens. Gorgeous autumn colours. And so many mushrooms!!

30/09/2026

I met someone recently who told me I should have more of me on my grid. Something I already knew, but confidence keeps me from doing.

So, here we are.

Me. Rebecca. The artist behind Rebecca Alexandra.

Inspired by the flowers and plants found in gardens and countryside, i recreate them from crepe paper. Not to be botanically accurate and true to exactly what I am seeing, but to capture the feeling they gave me.

I love the not so perfect look, a droop here, a twist there, a bruise or fading petal. Im drawn to earthy, muted colours and have a fear of bright white! Although, saying that, all my flowers start with white crepe paper.

I colour all my papers with a variety of high lightfast mediums to create the colours I like to use, and to do everything I can to reduce the fading that can naturally occur with coloured crepe paper. I want my work to last which is why I each piece has layers of colour and detail, all sealed and protected with a UV spray.

My inspiration comes from the world around me. My garden, the local countryside and the gardens and places we visit as a family. I work from my home on the Wirral, right in the middle of family life. My husband and children are well used to papers drying on the dining table, while most recently they have to navigate a jungle of giant flowers just to make it to the other side of the room!

Having been a mum and wife for so long, im just beginning to find me again. I seem to have hidden behind the excuse (is that the right word?!) of being there for everyone else. The problem solver, the fixer, the organiser. Coupled with reaching the age where hormonal help is needed, I have found myself hiding away, anxious no overthinking.

But, I want to build something for me. Something I can look back on and and say, look, I did that. Something my children can be proud to say their mums did.

I read a snippet of a post recently, i can’t remember where or what or who it was by (one of many things i can’t remember!) but I do remember the line:

I want my husband to say “Google her” when asked what his wife does.

That made me chuckle! I’d love that!

I’m still figuring it all out.

All of this to say, this is me. These flowers are what I do.

29/09/2026

Poppies.

I have been trying to write a post for these poppies all day after realising I hadn’t shared them. I just can’t seem to put words together!

I think I tell myself each flower or stem I make needs a story, a message, a reason for existing when it simply exists because I wanted to make it.

No hidden message, no hook to real you in, no life changing wisdom. Poppies made from paper, one larger than life to make a statement in a space (it looks so good at night with lighting. I need to take a picture!!).

That’s it, that’s all my words for today!

Poppies made from paper. Just because.

20/09/2026

My daughter loves alstroemeria flowers. For her birthday, she asked if I could create an arrangement for her room to tie in with her planned redecoration.

I hope she likes them.

Working from the real alstroemeria in the background (which Emily is waiting patiently to add to her flower press!), I used shades that work well with the colours Emily has chosen. In fact, for the darker burgundy flowers I used the actual paint Em has chosen for her walls!

I’ve kept the arrangement quite loose and airy just as asked for but I can add additional pops of colour with smaller flowers if Emily decides she’d like more.

Now to find the perfect vase.
Oh, and keep them hidden from her for the next few weeks!!

14/09/2026

I’ve been experimenting with scale over summer, taking each stem I make and creating a life size (or thereabouts) version and a larger statement sized version.

These are my Echinacea, life size and statement.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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https://rebeccaalexandra.co.uk/

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