Paul Cox: His Illustrated Life and Career

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Paul Cox is known for the rhythmic lines of his enchanting illustrations and drawings. Dr Louise Fenton will take you on a journey through his fascinating career to date. She will show examples of his illustration commissions, drawings and paintings.

Paul Cox places drawing at the heart of all his work and can be found balancing a board and paper on his hip while negotiating people, traffic and any other obstacles to capture a fleeting moment. He works with fluid lines and watercolours, evoking a distinctive sense of time and place.

Join Louise for this fully illustrated talk to explore the wonderful world of Paul Cox.

Paul Cox was born in London on 31 July 1957, and was educated at Port Regis and Stanbridge Earls School. He studied illustration at Camberwell School of Art and the Royal College of Art. Since his graduation in 1982, he has worked as a freelance illustrator and painter, involving himself in an extraordinary number and variety of projects. Readers of newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic will instantly recognise his wonderfully fresh images from the Daily Telegraph, Country Life, The Spectator, The Sunday Times Magazine, Punch, The Times, Blueprint Magazine, Vanity Fair and Esquire (whose ‘Smart Money’ section featured Cox’s work for over two years).

The witty draughtsmanship of Paul Cox has enhanced the charm of such humorous classics as Somerville and Ross’s Experiences of an Irish RM (1984), P G Wodehouse’s Leave it to Psmith (1989), J K Jerome’s Three Men in a Boat (1989) , Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind in the Willows (1993), eleven volumes of Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster series of novels and five of the Blandings novels for The Folio Society.

Dr Louise Fenton is a senior lecturer in Contextual Studies at the University of Wolverhampton, School of Art. She is an artist, illustrator, writer and cultural historian.

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