Patrick Douglass Cox
Alberta artist Patrick Douglass Cox studied at the Alberta College of Art and also in New York. He built his own illustration and design studio in Calgary and then, in the early1980s, chose to paint full time.
His high-realist paintings are influenced by his fondness and respect for the western milieu of his ranching ancestors and the Albertan landscape. Even if his subjects are not obviously rural, such as Prime Minister Joe Clark, Cox searches for a rural stoicism. Cox’s own biography says he searches for an “unpretentious dignity” in the subjects of his portraits.