1927 July 22nd, 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
1945 Bristol 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.
1955 Daughter Jessica born December 29th
1957 Son 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 x 84” long pendulums. 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 Three 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
In Loving Memory of Ken 1927 - 1968