Alexandra (Lexi) Richards
“The women in my life made it look easy and natural. I learned a ton by osmosis. As a result, at various jobs I was always the go-to girl for arranging flowers on the table, creating artwork, and tending the blooms. When I started working in a traditional florist shop, I missed the fragrance and variety of the flowers grown at home. This kind of reminded me of when I was a child and I had the 12 pack of pencil crayons, but I really wanted the 24 pack. As a creative and a lifelong learner, I wanted to grow those flowers with delicious colours, romantic movement, and soul-stirring fragrance.”
Alexandra studied Graphic Design at UFV (back when it was a college, and ‘cut + paste’ was really with an X-Acto knife and glue!) and Organic Landscape Design with Gaia College. Today, she an entrepreneurial floral artist. Flowers are her paint, and her canvases range from the tiniest boutonniere, to 10 meter diameter floral circles, and commissioned installations. She works primarily with cut flowers and floral arranging but likes to push the boundaries with other projects, incorporating dried, pressed, and preserved flowers into her installations. Her designs are fresh, unique, and rooted in time and place.
