Edd Cox

I was born January 1948 in Bremerton Washington. My father a sailor and my mother living with my grandmother in Port Orchard. I grew up in South Tacoma with a woods and lake linked by a broad field long before the freeway. I began my career at the age of seven, having drawn and painted from an early age. In eighth grade I had my first art instruction with the great artist and teacher Richard Rhea. We studied all the media from drawing to painting and ceramics. I could feel a talent and desire and was encouraged.

I started oil painting when I was fourteen. I also was adept at drafting. I took drafting classes in high school along with every art class available. I landed a job with Gordon and Cross, Electrical Engineering in 1965. I was seventeen, drafting up blueprints, working after school, weekends and summers. After more than two years in the office, I decided not to be an architect and devoted myself to fine arts, emphasizing Painting. I gained altitude at community colleges and a year at Western Washington State College where I had my first college level painting course.

In the summer of 1969 I was drafted as an Army illustrator and spent a year in Baltimore Maryland. I was twenty three and for the first time experienced ...

BFA Fine Arts Painting/Ceramics University of Washington 1977

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017 EDD COX - SELECTED PAINTINGS The Collins Pub. Pioneer Square. Seattle, Washington. 2016 EDD COX - SELECTED PAINTINGS The Kitchen Sous Sol Winery. Pioneer Square. Seattle, Washington. 2015 EDD COX - SELECTED PAINTINGS Trinsic Group Mutual Life Building Pioneer Square. Seattle, Washington. 2014 EDD COX - SELECTED PAINTINGS The Kitchen Sous Sol Winery. Pioneer Square. Seattle, Washington. 2011 EDD COX - EDD COX FINE ART GALLERY Pioneer Square. Seattle, Washington. 2010 YOUNG SCHOLARS CREATE Cafe Paloma. Pioneer Square. Seattle, Washington. 2006 TEMPLE GARDEN NW Craft Center Gallery. Seattle Center. Seattle, Washington. 1996 THE DANCE OF LOVE US Bank. Pioneer Square. Seattle, Washington. 1993 EDD COX - WOODCUTS & CERAMIC VESSELS Artworks Gallery. Seattle, Washington. 1992 CARDBOARD SCULPTURE Casa U Betcha Restaurant. Seattle, Washington. ...