Sir Terry Frost – Timberaine B, E, F

Sir Terry Frost RA was one of Britain’s most successful and highly acclaimed artists of the 20th century. Captivating audiences with his colourful and exuberant paintings. His popularity bought new perspectives to the landscape world. Frost specialised in dimensions of landscape-orientated abstract art.

Frost was born on 13 October 1915 at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He left school at 14 but attended evening art classes at the age of 16. During which, he hustled a variety of jobs, including working in a cycle shop and the paint workshop of an aircraft factory.

In 1941, he was captured in Crete whilst serving as a Commando and interred at a prisoner of war camp in Bavaria, where he remained for the duration of the war. It was there that he met Adrian Heath, a Slade School alumnus who encouraged Frost to paint and helped to sharpen the emerging artist’s sensibilities. Once returning to the UK in 1945, Frost enrolled at the University of Birmingham, quickly he left for the Camberwell School of Art, and then transferred to the St Ives School of Painting, all within the year. By the late 1950s, Frost had become established as one of the great abstract painters in the modern British scene. Regularly he exhibited across the UK especially in London but also globally. From the mid 1950s, he was also involved in academia teaching at various UK universities.

In 1974, Frost relocated permanently to Newlyn in Cornwall. Frost loved Cornwall and drew much inspiration from the region. Elected a Royal Academician by the Royal Academy of Arts in 1992 and knighted in 1998, Frost died on 1 September 2003.