Sam Cox

Sam Cox (born 1993 or 1994), known professionally as Mr Doodle, is an illustrator and artist from St Michaels, Kent, England. He is known for his "graffiti spaghetti" style, and in 2024 had an exhibition at the Holburne Museum in Bath.

Biography Cox is from Kent, England, and studied as an illustrator at the University of the West of England in Bristol.

His work rate was so intense that Cox eventually experienced mental health problems, suffering from psychosis.

On 3 August 2021, Cox married Ukrainian artist and illustrator Alena Kaffa, who became known as Mrs Doodle (Alena Cox), with their wedding celebrated at the Cox family manor in Tenterden, Kent .

In 2022 it was reported he had covered "every inch" of his 6-bedroom Tenterden home, including the contents, with his style of doodles. The illustrations involved "two years, 900 litres of emulsion, 401 spray-paint cans, 286 bottles of drawing paint and 2,296 pen nibs", and was reported in the Guardian newspaper as "like stepping inside a migraine".

The stop-motion film of the project achieved online popularity, and resulted in the production of the documentary film The Trouble With Mr Doodle which explored both creativity and mental health.

In June 2024, for DocFest, Mr Doodle created the Doodle Dome in Sheffield city centre.

Mr Doodle! Museum Mayhem From May to September 2024 the Holburne Museum in Bath, England, hosted the first museum exhibition of Mr Doodle's work, Mr Doodle! Museum Mayhem. The exhibition included replacing several of the museum exhibits, by artists such as John Constable, with his own works.