Alexa has worked with oils from a young age and has developed her own techniques and styles. She is currently experimenting with different subjects and scales, and enjoys setting herself new challenges. Alexa has also incorporated house hold materials such as gloss, imulsion and varnish into her work. The contrasting surface textures creates a more visualy interesting canvas.

Alexa is interested in iconic and famous figures. She has produced ink images of Marilyn Monroe and John Lennon, using sepia tones against harsh blacks, resembling photographs. Alexa often uses the harshness and the depth of black against the softness and fragility of more paler, translucent tones to create a dramatic image through the contrast. She also combines aqueous mediums, such as ink, with oils and varnish to create more depth to the surface and emphasise her attention to detail.

‘I like there to be visual differences between certain areas of a painting, not only is it more interesting for the viewer, but working with different surfaces motivates my practice.’ She continues, ‘I am equally passionate about the processes and experimentation for a painting as I am about the final outcome, if my practice is enticing for me then my final work will hopefully entice the viewer.’

Alexa sometimes captures her subject from below, creating an unusual angle and an illusion of greater perspective. These angles can be seen in the series 'the Gaze', the viewer is made to look up at the subject, becoming the object of the gaze. This can create an awkward audience as the viewer is usualy the active onlooker and the object in the painting is the passive. This view is also incorporated in 'the Tree'. Alexa was first inspired by John Berger's 'Ways of Seeing', which talks about active and passive codes for looking and relates to the gaze.