Contact: Steve Cox Illustration +44 (0) 1225 421146 email: stevecox.uk@gmail.com Please click here. |
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I’ve always had a love of drawing ever since I can remember picking up a pen and making my first marks on a piece of paper. I was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire and then moved to Caversham near Reading before my family moved us to Cornwall when I was aged ten. I scribbled, sketched and painted my way through my school years but it wasn’t until I had to make a decision about college that I started to think about doing it for a living. Faced with a basic choice of Fine Art or Graphic Design, I chose the latter and spent four years at Cornwall College of Art, graduating with a distinction and the letters S.I.A.D (Society of Industrial Artists and Designers) after my name. I was also playing bass guitar in a band at the time which brought me to Bristol and Bath where I began work for a small design company. Here, I suddenly found myself in the world of toy packaging and children’s TV character merchandising, where my drawing and visualising skills were put to the test creating illustrations and concept drawings for all manner of packaging and licensed products. The TVAM character, Roland Rat was on the up at the time and the design company I was working for became heavily involved in producing design and illustration for the huge amount of merchandising that was being produced. I personally became the ‘approved Roland Rat artist’ which in turn took me to London and further into the world of character merchandising. Whilst living in London I joined up with a leading licensing company to make a joint pitch to handle all of the licensing and product design for what was Cosgrove Hall and Thames Television’s biggest ever animation series – Count Duckula. The pitch was a huge success and I was able to set up my own design and illustration company which would specialise in design and illustration for many well known children’s TV and film characters and as the company grew we became the approved studio for many of them. Although the company was a success, I decided that I really wanted to return to the drawing board full-time and concentrate on my own illustration rather than remain as an art director. Now, many years later, I have had my work published in hundreds of books all over the world. I have produced artwork for many, varied projects from simple board books to highly complex and detailed pop-up models which I have developed with my friend Nick Denchfield, the very talented paper engineer. In 2006 my very first 'proper'picture book, Pigs Might Fly, written by Jonathan Emmett, won the 'Books For Younger Children' category of the Red House Children's Book Award and we are currently busy working on another which features a crocodile pirate and his sea dog submarine crew. Recently I have returned to live and work in Bath where it all started and I've also taken up making music again, playing lead guitar in a rock covers band called The Atomic Rays who can be found regularly playing in and around Bristol. All Images ©Steve Cox 2008 |
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