Sir Terry Frost 1915 - 2003

Terry Frost was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. Served in the Army and was held a prisoner of war in Bavaria where he met the painter Adrian Heath. After the war studied at the Birmingham College of Art, then at St. Ives School of Painting and at Camberwell School of Art in the late 1940's. Later Frost went on to teach at a number of art schools including at Banff Summer School, Canada. Began abstract painting in 1949, worked in St. Ives in 1950-52 as an assistant to the sculptor Barbara Hepworth. Exhibited widely internationally and in England, at the Redfern Gallery, New Art Centre and Austin/Desmond Fine Art. Elected RA in 1982 and knighted in 1998. Royal Academy held a retrospective exhibition in 2000. The Tate Gallery and other public collections hold his work.