I paint for the joy of painting. It is a natural way to express my ideas, impressions and reactions to nature, color and mood. Using landscape, the garden and still life, I am able to paint my responses in a way that expresses my sheer excitement of putting the brush to paper with watercolor paint, making marks, creating edges, washes and using brilliant color. Local regional scenes as well as traveling abroad give me endless opportunity to paint en plein air and in my studio. Gardening, cooking and teaching are passions I share with my brush.

Eleanor Cox  

       

Eleanor is originally from Robersonville, North Carolina. She attended Greensboro College and received her BFA in Art Education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. As a post-graduate, she also attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD and East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. She has been teaching since 1968 and currently gives private group watercolor lessons in Richmond, Virginia.

She has received numerous prizes and awards from various Watercolor Societies and Exhibitions including the Virginia Watercolor Society, the Bon Air Artists Association, Richmond, Virginia and awards for the past three years at the Maymont Flower and Garden Show, Richmond, Virginia.

Eleanor was selected to exhibit in the 30th Southern Watercolor Society Exhibition in Mountrie, Georgia March 16-April 16, 2007, the 2nd Annual Jurored CAC@GA Desire in Glen Allen, Virginia January 7-February 24, 2007, and the All Member Show, National Watercolor Society in San Pedro, California in 2005. She is a signature member of the Virginia Watercolor Society, the Southern Watercolor Society, the Baltimore Watercolor Society, LM, and the Potomac Valley Watercolorists.