About Alexia
Who am I/how did I get here?
Hey all!
I'm Alexia, currently the sole designer/artist/crafter and owner of Elven Lion Art. Throughout my 29 years on this planet, I've had a love for all things artistic, magical, spiritual and meaningful! Being inventive, imaginative and creative is something that I have always been passionate about - not just with words, but with anything I set my hands to! I have spent my life so far diving headlong from one creative project to another - when I was young, I wrote short stories (and very long stories)! Then, I formed a band and composed my own songs. I began a creative writing course at university, and now, I've started this business of selling my art. It took me a while to find out what I wanted to focus on for the rest of my life (I've always been interested in too many of the creative arts) but now, I believe, I have found it! Elven Lion offers me the right amount of stability yet flexibility, for all of my creative ideas!
Here is a throwback to when I used to play music all the time... I still do when I'm not painting or sculpting!
What inspired 'Elven Lion'?
Back in 2015, after recommendations from friends, I visited Glastonbury for the first time (the town, not the festival), and that experience changed my life. Never before had I been to such a spiritual place, and I became determined to make my own jewellery that captured the free-spiritedness and reverence for nature that permeated the area, and all of the items that were sold there. It felt like I had come home, and all I wanted was to do was create my own world that evoked that same incredible atmosphere that I had been searching for all my life - where fantasy, reality, and spirituality all collided together in beautiful explosions of colour.
Just look at this amazing shop front in Glastonbury! Here, people put their all into showcasing their items in the most imaginative and magical-looking way!
And there were so many crystals there as well!!
How did I start 'Elven Lion'?
It was only in May of 2017 that I finally decided to put my ideas into practice, because my (ex partner, still best friend) at the time encouraged me in my plan of setting up a jewellery/art business. Because he believed in me, it gave me the final push I needed to set up the business. I first came up with the name Alexia's Adornarium - 'Adornarium' being a combination of two words, 'adornments' and 'imaginarium' - at the time it encapsulated not only what I would be selling, but also what I hoped my shop would be - a place dedicated to the imagination! I created a fantasy world by the same name, consisting of the four elements plus spirit, for each of the creatures I created in sculpture form to live within. I then began crafting pendants with polymerclay and crystals, being self taught by YouTube tutorials and my own intuition. I found that polymerclay very much suited my aims as it was just as flexible and versatile as someone with my imagination needed. After 2020, I narrowed my focus to dragon sculptures. After joining Tiktok in 2021, I renamed my business "Elven Lion" an ode to my love of whimsical fantasy worlds combined with the awe-inspiring beauty of the real life animals we are lucky to share this planet with! (Particularly big cats, who are my favourites).
I already knew I loved creating artworks - this is a charcoal portrait I drew years prior to starting the Adornarium of Rick Grimes from 'The Walking Dead'. I posted it on my Facebook profile in 2013!
This is one of my earliest pieces made in 2017 - as you can see, my primary focus was making unusual and nature-inspired necklaces back when I first began!
Where is 'Elven Lion' now?
Whilst I originally started out making jewellery items, this evolved into art dolls and other sculptures as my skills and interest in arts and crafts developed. For a few years, my most sought-after items became my dragon figurines, each living within a different "Region" of the fantasy Adornarium world I created (that can still be explored today through this website)! Then over time and with changing social media landscapes, I suddenly became most known for my mushroom and precious stone earrings and pendants, particularly on Tiktok, where I went live and showed the process of creating them, making lots of new friends and followers along the way! Unfortunately, at the end of 2025, Tiktok became too hostile an environment for any small business trying to sell items outside of their new inbuilt shopping feature, that was also not made to be suitable for artists selling one of a kind handmade pieces. So, albeit slightly demoralized, I used this as an opportunity to reconsider the direction of this business, and if I even wanted to continue making sculpture and jewellery the way I had been for nine years. After much self-reflection I realised that of course I wanted to keep making art - that would never change! But that the fire in my belly was increasingly being ignited by painting. A process not characterised by launches of ten or so one-of-a-kind 3d items that are churned out rapidly and then gone forever once sold - but by the ability to spend weeks, even months, perfecting a singular vision... that would remain no matter who else claimed it (either through a print or original). Thus preserving a portfolio of your work that accumulates, whereby each piece contains your whole heart, soul, and dedicated focus. This is my intended direction for Elven Lion going forward. And although that might disappoint those who have enjoyed my sculptural pieces, I hope in time it will become clear why this path I have chosen was the best one to take to maximize the amount of beauty I can offer to the world!
Here is an image of the bookshelf of one of my wonderful Instagram followers - it is teaming with the dragons she purchased from me! I am so grateful for any and all support I get from my followers - be it by sharing and spreading the word of Elven Lion Art verbally, or by purchasing the pieces I have created!
What is the ethos behind 'Elven Lion'?
All I've ever wanted to do was bring more of the other-worldly into the real world, and to give others a glimpse into the vivid imagination that has kept me busy daydreaming for years (yes, I never paid attention much in my non-creative school subjects!) There is so much that is magical and more than what meets the eye in life and in our minds, and I want to take all of this and turn it into something real and tangible through my art.
I want to give people hope that success is not necessarily following the crowd, and the path of academia (something that was drilled into me all through my education) or necessarily participating in the rat-race that is contributing to real problems in our society (and arguably, could be turning people into cold, unreflective robots). I want to inspire people to realise that there is greatness in being yourself, and doing what you can do well and enjoy, not necessarily what is expected of you.
I also want to encourage people to have appreciation for nature, not as something that is just a resource, but as something sacred from which many incredible things can occur. The world of the Adornarium is one that is wholly natural, comprised of the five key elements that make up our world, and is wholly untouched by mankind's destruction and greed. The fantastical creatures that inhabit it represent what wonders might occur if for once, we stop crucifying our own world and allow the all-providing and creative power of nature to be fully-realised again. I hope in time my paintings will also be able to convey this same sense of magic and wonderment in the natural world.
Lastly, I am wholly against the use of generative AI in art. Art is as transformative for the artist who creates it as the viewer who observes it, and removing the organic process of its creation by human hands on a canvas or on clay, is to strip the art of the soul and humanity behind it. This is to say nothing of the real artists who spent years on their craft whose work was stolen from them without permission to train these AI models, or the negative environmental impact of such technology.
Art takes precious time, dedication and perseverance to create - technology makes it convenient, yes - But we don't value art for its convenience; we value it for its soul. Anything created with love, sweat and tears, are the true treasures of this world. And for my customers, followers, and friends: I intend to offer treasures, or nothing at all!
(Photography by Caroline Allington)
I will leave you with these pictures of myself enjoying nature - my primary inspiration for everything I do!
