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1028834 - Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Terry Frost, 1990, photographed in his studio overlooking Newlyn harbour, Cornwall.
Sir Terrence Ernest Manitou Frost (Terry Frost 13 October 1915-1 September 2003) painter. Terry’s work is full of vitality, colour and rhythm, which reflects the man and his great humour. He was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, in 1915, where he was educated until 1929. He served in the British Army from 1939 to 1945 and was a prisoner of war in Salonika, Poland and Germany Stalag 383. During his wartime experience he was nearly killed several times and saw a lot of his best friends die. While a prisoner of war, Terry met the painter Adrian Heath, he encouraged him to paint and then to apply to Camberwell School of Art and to live and work in St Ives. When he returned to London in 1947, he studied at Camberwell School of Art, under Victor Pasmore, William Coldstream and Lawrence Gowing, and then at the Penzance School of Art. Terry produced his first abstract paintings in 1947, but had previously exhibited with a solo show in 1944 at the Leamington Spa Library. His first abstract show in 1951, was at the Riverside Museum, New York which was a show of Danish, British and American Abstract Art. At this time Terry was also assistant to Barbara Hepworth on the Festival of British Sculptures. In 1952 Terry had his first one man show in London at the Leicester Galleries. By the late 1950’s Terry Frost was established as a leading figure, and is acknowledged as being in the forefront of the British Modernist Movement. From that time until Terry’s death he continued to work inexhaustibly and exhibit through out the world. He has enjoyed a career spanning six decades. In 1992 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts and in 1998 Terry was knighted in the New Years Honours list. Terry leaves behind his beloved wife Kath and six children.
©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto
©2006 John Hedgecoe/Topfoto
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