Nigel Cox

London based artists. Nigel grew up on the edge of Dundalk, a small market town in County Louth, Ireland. After graduating from Riversdale College of Technology in Liverpool he joined the Transglobe Expedition, led by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. This three-year expedition successfully achieved the first circumnavigation of the globe on land, sea and ice via North and South poles along the Greenwich Meridian.

During the expedition he would be at sea, on an ice cap or in some remote location for months on end. Spending large amounts of time alone, surrounded by the staggering beauty of vast and often barren spaces had a profound affect and the essence of this experience has strongly influenced his painting.

His love of large open spaces and lack of clutter is obvious in his work but he is also fascinated by detail. These opposing elements are merged in his paintings providing the viewer with a glimpse beyond the clutter of everyday life.

He extracts everyday people from the crowded urban environment and place them centre stage in solitude. They are unaware of his presence and therefore are natural and relaxed . . . giving a more true representation of the essence of the person being painted.

Galleries and Exhibitions 2015
Royal Insitiute of Oil Painters, The Mall Galleries, London SW1,
ING Discerning eye, The Mall Galleries, London SW1, November 2015Group Show
Gallery ELL,War on Terror, New York, USA. Online Group Show
Art Gemini, Menier Gallery, London, UK, Group Show
Rarity Gallery, Mykonos, Greece, Group Show
Art London, Design Centre, Islington, London, UK, Group Show

Galleries and Exhibitions 2014
Coates & Scarry, Gallery 8, Duke Street, London SW1Y 6BN from 10 – 22 Nov 2014
Quantum Contemporary Art, Art Wynwood, Miami, Florida, Group Show
Galerie Lindengrün, Vienna, Austria. Group Show

Galleries and Exhibitions 2013
Sanguine, Coates and Scarry & Elizabeth Weinstock, Los Angeles, USA, Group Show
Galerie Lindengrün, Vienna, Austria. Group Show
Coates & Scarry, Philadelphia Street Gallery, Bristol, UK, Group Show
Stroke Urban Art Fair (Coates & Scarry), Munich Germany, Group Show
Quantum Contemporary Art, London, UK. Group Show
Trailblazers, Above Second Gallery/Coates & Scarry, Hongkong, Group Show

Galleries and Exhibitions 2012
The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London, UK. Group Show
Coates and Scarry, Group Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia, Group ...