Sir Terry Frost

Sir Terry Frost (1915-2003) was a painter and printmaker associated with the St. Ives School. He attended art classes at 16 before moving into jobs based in electricity and radio. During the Second World War, he was captured in Germany, where as a prisoner of war, he met the artist Adrian Heath who taught Frost whilst they were interred. After he was released, he moved to St. Ives in 1946, and studied under Leonard Fuller, before studying at Camberwell School of Art where his tutors were Victor Pasmore and William Coldstream.

In 1951 he became an assistant to Barbara Hepworth, and in 1952 had his first solo exhibition at the Leicester Galleries in London. Frost went on to exhibit through the UK and abroad, and taught at Bath Academy, Corsham as well as Leeds College of Art. His work is now in many public and private collections worldwide.