Artist, teacher and administrator, born in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, who did a foundation course at Southend School of Art; graduated from Newport College of Art; gained his master’s degree at Birmingham College of Art; and his teacher’s certificate at London University. Cox held full- and part-time teaching posts in the 1970s and early 1980s; moved to live in Cardiff in 1975; from 1983–94 worked at South East Wales Arts; and WAC, 1994–8. Visiting lectureships included British, American, Norwegian and Indian appointments. Foreign residencies included School of Fine Art, Kunstakademiet i Trondheim, Norway, 1987; School of Painting, Montmiral, France, 1991; and Bemis Centre for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, 1999. Although Cox did some figurative work, including Photo-Realist drawings of American cars, his work was mainly non-figurative, as in the three-man touring exhibition Analogue, originated at Newport Museum and Art Gallery, Wales, 1999.