BIOGRAPHY

1927 Born, Albert Richard William Kenelm Cox in Wotton Under Edge

Mother, Daisy Preston Silverthorne Durn

  Father, William Cox

Grandfather, Albert Durn, the photographer in Wotton-Under-Edge

Brother, Martin Henry (Harry) 1930-2000

1945Bristol UWE Art College

1946-48 National Service Marines (mostly drew and painted murals)

1949-51 Camberwell Art School studied painting

1951-52 Bristol Teacher Training

1952 Rosehill Alderley, Gloucestershire taught Art 7-12 yr olds

1953-58 Wotton Secondary Modern taught Art

1952 Met Margaret Buckingham who was standing in as soloist at the

  Wotton-Under-Edge Choral society’s Christmas concert in which he

  was singing

1954 Married Margaret Buckingham in Wadhurst Parish Church, Sussex

1955 Moved to Lasborough, Gloucestershire where he produced his large

  landscape paintings

1955Daughter Jessica born December 29th

1957Son Jeremy born February 6th

1958-62 Family moved to London. Head of the Art at Acland Burghley

  Comprehensive teaching Art and Pottery (which he had to learn very

  quickly from his friend Geri Morgan).Continued painting , a series of

  sea paintings and the Sharpness Bridge, but became more

  disillusioned with descriptive landscapes because the development

  of photography and colour film seemed to negate the need for this

  traditional work

1960 Daughter Margot born London September 10th

 

1962 After having an eye operation for glaucoma he moved to The Park,

  Kingscote, Gloucestershire with his wife and children as well as his

  Mother and his Father–in-Law. The house used to be the stables,

  with rambling gardens, and in the three connecting outbuildings,

  which were the old laundry, he established his studios: “ Top, Middle

  and Bottom ” He met with like-minded artists and poets including

  Dom Sylvester Houédard (DSH) and John Furnival and started to

  move away from classic painting and to begin experimenting with his

  own wall sculptures and motorised sculptures. He also built a full size

  Sunday Times Cygnet dinghy boat in the kitchen!

1965 Daughter Imogen born June 15th

1966 Built a Harmonograph drawing machine which made intricate spiral –like

  pictures using the new coloured biros with 2 pendulums - 84” long. This

  machine hung down the stairwell at Kingscote

 

1962-68 Part-time teaching at Gloucestershire College of Art in Cheltenham

  and Stroud

1968 November 5th London, travelling to oversee the packing of his 3

  Graces sculptures, he was hit by a car whilst crossing the road to

  speak to a friend. On November 7th died of his injuries aged 41

Seasons Clock - 1966