Alex took her art studies at Falmouth College of Art, completing her MA with Honours in 2009. She works closely with the cooperative group of artists who manage and run the New Street Gallery, Penzance, and is employed part-time in Penzance's historic private lending library, the Morrab Library in Morrab Gardens.

Her working studio is in the complex of artists' studios at Trewidden Gardens in Buryas Bridge, west of Penzance, where she bases her drawings and illustrations on people and their stories in narrative-based or story-telling pictures. She exhibits at mixed craft and art shows around the peninsula, and is also a tutor at Newlyn School of Art.