Terry Frost

Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA ( born October 13, 1915 in Leamington Spa, † 1 September 2003 in Hayle, Cornwall ) was a British painter.

Life

After Terry Frost had left school at the age of 14, he began in a bicycle shop to work. In 1939, he joined the army, and was taken in 1941 in Crete in captivity. In a Bavarian prison camp, he portrayed his fellow prisoners on upholstery. After the war was over, Terry Frost married and settled in the famous artist village of St. Ives in Cornwall, where he had a studio until his death. After taking courses at the St Ives School of Painting in 1947 he moved to London to study at the Camberwell School of Arts, where he remained until 1950. In 1949, he painted with Madrigal (now Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery ), his first abstract picture.

In 1951 he became assistant to the painter Barbara Hepworth, St Ives. From 1952 taught Frost at various art schools and universities ( including the Academy of Arts Cyprus), until he was in 1977 appointed professor of painting at the University of Reading. He was admitted to the Royal Academy of Arts, and knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1998 1992.

Terry Frost was an abstract artist. His paintings are found repeatedly Boat and Fishing Topics - Terry Frost lived over half a century at sea.

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