My Story
Hi, I'm Alix, an American-born artist living in Dublin, Ireland, and someone who has been making things with her hands for as long as she can remember.
Art wasn't something I came to later in life. It was just always there. Some of my most treasured memories are weekends and summers spent with the women who shaped me most, my aunt and my grandmother, who gave me the greatest gift imaginable: time, space, and materials. Their homes were filled with antiques and art and life. Colour, texture, curiosity, beauty in every corner. That's the world I grew up wanting to inhabit. That's the world I'm slowly building for myself.
What I do
I've worked in digital marketing for over ten years, but my heart has always belonged to the making. These days I'm pouring as much of myself as I can into what genuinely lights me up: embroidery, illustration, graphic design, and both film and digital photography. Not because I had to choose one, but because creativity has never been a single lane for me. It's just how I move through the world.
My embroidery work is where I spend the most time right now. Intricate, detailed, slow. Exactly the kind of work that demands you be present for it. I love that about it. I also create illustrations, prints, and digital downloads, and I photograph everything. Film for the warmth and the surprise, digital for the precision.
What this space is about
This website is a little bit of everything, because so am I. There's a shop, a portfolio, and a blog I've been writing since 2014, back when it was mostly dispatches from a wide-eyed American trying to figure out Ireland.
A lot has changed since then. I became an Irish citizen. I put down roots. I found my people. And somewhere along the way I found my way back to the things that matter most: intention, slowness, beauty, creativity. Noticing the small things. Living more connected to the earth and to myself.
That's the thread running through everything here, whether it's a hand-stitched piece taking shape over many quiet evenings, a photograph of something most people walked past, or a blog post about a foggy morning in Mayo. I want to make spaces, physical and digital, a little more beautiful, a little more intentional.
I'm glad you found your way here. Have a look around, and if something catches your eye or you just want to say hello, my contact page is always open.