The artist Kenelm Cox died in a road accident in London in 1968. He was only 41 and gaining an increasing reputation as a concrete poet and kinetic sculptor. He was showing at the ICA, London and at exhibitions in Europe and South America. Shortly after his death his friends put together a commemorative exhibition to raise funds to help his family, but since then nothing has been seen of his work. He was born in Wotton-under-Edge in 1927, the son of Daisy Durn and grandson of respected local photographer Albert Durn. He was Head Boy at Katharine Lady Berkeley's School and later taught in Stroud, part of Gloucester College of Art.

After his death, his wife Margaret did not want to let the art world near her grief. She said: "Although people wrote wonderful letters about his art work, I did not like that world at the time." She and her four young children just continued to live in Kingscote with Ken's art work around them.

Only recently was Margaret Cox ready for her husband's work to be seen in public again; and this is due to two main influences. Local artist Rob Collins (one of the directors of Under the Edge Arts) has been very enthusiastic and supportive about the project - he taught Ken's daughter Margot at Cheltenham College of Art; and Margot has been very keen to catalogue and gather together her father's art works.

And the exhibition has united the art world' with, perhaps more importantly for the artist's widow, the extended family of the Coxes. Margot Gibbs; Imogen & Steve Ash; Jessica Shackleton; and Jeremy & Jools Cox are all involved with the Wotton exhibition in various ways. "I have a multi-talented family", Margaret said, "and this is a wonderful way of creating their father again for them, and creating a grandfather for the nine grandchildren." Imogen, Ken Cox's youngest daughter, was only three years old at the time of his death. Margaret said: "We were all part of creating some of the art when we were in Kingscote - for The Three Graces, an enormous piece about love, passion and beauty commissioned by the Brighton Festival in 1967 and shown on the sea itself, I collected chains and the children painted the metal drums.." Initially a painter, Kenelm Cox had become interested in words/letters and kinetic sculptures through his friendships with local artist John Furnival and poet & Prinknash Abbey monk Dom Sylvester.

Dom Sylvester wrote in Cox's obituary: "His friends and pupils will also remember his special gentleness and selfnessness and charity that consorted so well with his meticulous craftsmanship , with his inflexible support and defence of human rights often at considerable cost and risk, and with the warmth experienced by all who visited the studios and workshops he had been creating at Kingscote.