Terry Frost

One of the best-loved figures in British art, Terry Frost was encouraged to paint in a prisoner-of-war camp by fellow prisoner and artist Adrian Heath, he moved to St Ives in Cornwall after the war, studying at the St Ives School of Painting. From 1947 to 1950 he attended the Camberwell School of Art, which, with Heath's studio, was the focal point of Constructivist tendencies in England. Frost followed their concern for proportion and systematic procedures but he soon rejected their historicist notions of a necessary development towards abstraction from two to three dimensions and the potential relationship between painting, architecture and design. His first one-man show was held in London at the Leicester Galleries (1952), led to paintings that evoked the features of the Yorkshire countryside and harsh snowy winters. He returned to St Ives in 1956 but spent the decade from 1964 teaching at Reading University, before settling back at Newlyn in 1974.

Sir Terry Frost (British, 1915-2003)

	One of the best-loved figures in British art, Terry Frost was encouraged to paint in a prisoner-of-war camp by fellow prisoner and artist Adrian Heath, he moved to St Ives in Cornwall after the war, studying at the St Ives School of Painting. From 1947 to 1950 he attended the Camberwell School of Art, which, with Heath's studio, was the focal point of Constructivist tendencies in England. Frost followed their concern for proportion and systematic procedures but he soon rejected their historicist notions of a necessary development towards abstraction from two to three dimensions and the potential relationship between painting, architecture and design. His first one-man show was held in London at the Leicester Galleries (1952), led to paintings that evoked the features of the Yorkshire countryside and harsh snowy winters. He returned to St Ives in 1956 but spent the decade from 1964 teaching at Reading University, before settling back at Newlyn in 1974.

		untitled screenprint in 10 colours on Velin arches paper signed and numbered 1/XX by the artist in pencil one of 20 artists' proofs aside from the standard edition of 100 64.5 x 51.2 cm. (sheet) £1,250 (within light birch frame published by the Royal Academy in 2000.

		Christmas Tree silkscreen in red and black signed in the plate limited edition Provenance: The artist's studio •

		Oh what an effort it is to love you as I do Garcia Lorca Silkscreen in colours signed and numbered 18/48 by the artist in pencil 31 x 31 cm. (sheet) the full sheet with deckled edges. Published by The Royal College of Art in 1987 in an edition of 48. •



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Sir Terry Frost (British, 1915-2003)