About Soul Imagination in Nassau, Bahamas

Who we are

Soul imagination is a social enterprise dedicated to inspiring young people from all walks of life to develop a powerful 'creative imagination' to create new realities for themselves, for others, and for the earth.

We partner with writers, artists, inventors, entrepreneurs, musicians and healers as well as community groups and civic organizations to empower young people:

To walk their own path
To understand their inherent connection to all living beings and to the earth
To respect all forms of life

We do this through the UNIVERSAL SOUL program.

Founder: Dr. Desirée Cox, MD, PhD
Dr Desiree Cox Soul Imagination was founded by Dr Desirée C. T. Cox in 2005. Dr Cox has worked as a medical doctor, a professional historian of medicine, a jazz-singer, writer and visionary artist/painter.

Born in a poor inner-city area of Nassau, Bahamas, Desirée studied science at McGill University (Montreal, Canada) where she specialized in Quantum chemistry, receiving a BSc. (Hon) in Chemistry in 1986. In 1987 Desirée went to Oxford University where she studied medicine as a Rhodes Scholar.

After qualifying as a medical doctor she obtained a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) and a PhD in History of Medicine from Cambridge University of Cambridge. Desirée worked as a medical doctor in London for a number of years before moving to The Bahamas where she served as consultant and advisor to the Prime Minister of The Bahamas in the area of Human Development and Urban Renewal between 2004 and 2007.

Now focusing exclusively on her creative talents, Dr Desiree Cox is now a full-time visionary artist/painter, writer, independent consultant in Human Development and social entrepreneur. One of Desirée's creative innovations is of bringing together art and live music performance in the public spaces of hospitals to transform depressing hospital spaces into healing spaces lead to her being described as a 'Renaissance Woman' by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) in 2004. She is an Associate Lecturer to University of the West Indies in Ethics and Humanities and an international key-note speaker. Dr Desirée Cox is also one of the co-founders of the 2002 Urban Renewal Initiative of The Bahamas.

A 'true-true' colorist, Desirée's paintings are uniquely exotic, mystical and poetic. Her subject? The soul. Working mainly with oils, she aims in her canvases to explore the dimensions between 'real' and 'unreal'. Her brush strokes create a sense of movement and rhythm. Art critics and commentators have described her canvases as 'blazing', 'arresting', 'spiritual', 'surreal', 'soothing' and 'soulful'. Her 'color families' - the combinations of colors she brings together – draw from the Bahamian 'Junkanoo' music and art form and they strike an inner chord of the human soul. Since 2004 she has lived in The Bahamas.

She divides her time between Nassau (Bahamas) and the UK (her home for 16 years over). She has held a number of exhibitions in The Bahamas. Her work is held in private collections, homes and offices in the Bahamas. An exhibition of her work will be at London's Studio 47 gallery in 2008. She has released 2 Jazz CD's (2005 and 2007). Her first work of fiction 'Edge of the Sea' will be published in 2008.