Talking to John Cox about his painting, life drawing, fashion design and teaching it’s easy to feel like you’re in the presence of a Sheffield art Maharishi. With a take on the history of art that touches on everything from Vivienne Westwood to Manor Lodge, he’s a terrifically knowledgeable and engaging character, but he’s no internet guru, and dyslexia meant he wasn’t too keen to spend hours toiling at a keyboard for his website with Digital Entrepreneurs.
So we came up with the idea of providing an online version of the ‘Audio Tours’ you sometimes get in art galleries, recording a freewheeling audio which discussed the paintings, life drawings and commissions we’d uploaded to the site while also leaving room for John’s entertaining diversions through pre-Raphaelite brotherhoods and greek sunlight.
You can see the results on John’s site, Drawing The Line, but we’ve also put together a special highlights reel covering three of John’s favourite pieces, which you can listen to below.
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