After studying at Farnham and Plymouth Art Schools, Alex set up a blacksmithing business, specializing in designing and making furniture, fixings, and sculpture for a number of high profile restaurants, retailers, and businesses. He also became involved with an art foundry that shared the studios where he worked, before spending some time at the Frink School and a few months working at Bronze Age in South Africa.

A spell as foundry manager with Morris Singer with responsibility for many of the UK's monumental bronzes helped prepare him to set up his own foundry, from where he has worked on a number of high profile castings (The Bulls at Blagdon Hall) and restorations (The Green Horse, W...