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Patrick Douglass Cox graduated from the Alberta College of Art's Visual Communication program in 1976 and attended the Illustrators Workshop, Marymount College, New York. In 1982 he began painting fulltime, following a five year career as owner/designer of Crow Quill Studios Ltd., Calgary, one of the city's pioneering illustration houses.
Cox currently lives with his family on an acreage in Gem, Alberta and has retained ownership of the family homestead in Finnegan where his maternal grandparents were ranchers. While born in Edmonton, his family lived in Carstairs for many years. It is this rural upbringing that Cox brings to his artwork. This connection is further shown by Cox's inclusion of his grandfather's brand, 'B2P' on all of his artwork. Cox's respect for rural life, the people, animals, equipment and places have become the way of life that Cox has chosen to depict in his artwork. In 1987, CBC included Cox in their documentary "Painting Canada." Artists from across Canada were chosen for their ability to give voice to their vision of Canada. Cox states: "I feel honoured to be part of rural Alberta, and hope I successfully preserve some of the majesty the prairie holds, for in reality it slowly disappears."
Cox is represented in the collections of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Glenbow Museum and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts as well as several private collections. Cox was most recently a recipient of an award at Landmarks '97, an art event for and about Brooks, Alberta. Cox has had several solo exhibitions at Masters Gallery, Calgary and in 1994 was in a solo exhibition at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary.
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