| Joshua Cox |
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Born in Fremont, California, Joshua Cox lived in Oregon and California before settling in the picturesque country town of Haiku on Maui’s north shore in 1998. He started working with glass while attending Bella Vista High School in Sacramento, California, where he signed up for an art workshop, expecting to study drawing. As it turned out, the workshop had to do with stained glass. Joshua tried to transfer to a painting class, but it was full—and the rest, as they say, is history. He studied stained glass for three years, when a teacher helped him get an apprenticeship with a local glass artist. Subsequently, he worked for an architectural glass company producing leaded glass windows for six years. When he moved to Maui in 1996, he began creating his own work in earnest, joining the Lahaina Art Society right away. In 2001, he joined the Maui Crafts Guild in Pā‘ia. Around this time, he began fusing glass and incorporating the results into his stained glass work. A major influence on Joshua's work has been the art of Louis Comfort Tiffany. He says, “I enjoy finding designs in nature that accentuate the beauty of the opalescent glass that Tiffany Studios pioneered. My fused glass is inspired by the amorphous nature of glass and its seductive relationships with light.” |
