Terry Frost (born 1915) is amongst the most important
contemporary British artists today. He paints largely abstract works in acrylics, oils,
collage and a wide range of other media, influenced by the Cornish environment. He was
originally encouraged to paint by Adrian Heath while a POW during WWII. He studied at the
Camberwell and St. Ives schools of art and in 1951 worked as an assistant to Barbara
Hepworth. After living in St. Ives, he moved to Newlyn in 1974. He has exhibited at many
of the major London galleries, including the Leicester Galleries, Waddington Gallery, and
more recently the Austin/Desmond and Mayor Gallery. Retrospective exhibitions of his work
have been held at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle and the Serpentine in London, and he is
well known in USA and UK. From 1964 to 1981 he taught at Reading University. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Academy.
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