FROST, TERRY (British, 1915-2003)

Encouraged by Adrian Heath, whom he met whilst being imprisoned in Bavaria, to paint in oil, Frost began his studies after the war at the Birmingham College of Art, then at St Ives School of Painting and at the Camberwell School of Art in the late 1940s under Victor Pasmore and Coldstream.
He took teaching posts at the Bath Academy, San Jose University in California; the Reading and Newcastle Universities and at Banff Summer School in Canada.
Frost began abstract painting in 1949, shortly before returning to St. Ives where he worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth. He moved to Newlyn in 1974 and influenced by Cornish marine life, he ultimately derives from an interpretation of the water-front, the reflections on the water, the movement of the waves and the masts of the boats.
He exhibited widely, notably in London at the Redfern Gallery, New Art Centre and Austin/Desmond Fine Art, Leicester Galleries, the Waddington Gallery and the Mayor Gallery.
His work appeared at various major international exhibitions: in New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Santa Barbara, Paris, Leningrad and Moscow and was a John Moores prize winner in 1967, 1969 and 1972.
Elected RA in 1992 and was knighted in 1998.
In his eighties, having discovered glass as a medium to express himself, he became Britain's most famous glass sculptor, designing sculptures such as Millennium disc and the Aphrodite’s Moon Dream at the Murano glasswork in Venice and made under his personal supervision by the Venetian master glass-blower Mario Badioli, who assisted Frost in realising this new dimension in his work.

Public collections include:         
Arts Council of Great Britain, London
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Canterbury Museum, Christchurch, New Zealand
Gulbenkian Foundation, London
Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
National Museum of Canada, Ottawa
Tate, London
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
                                
                                                                                                        

LITERATURE:
Nine Abstract Artists, Lawrence ALLOWAY, London, 1954.
Exhibition catalogue, Mayor Gallery, London 1990.
Daniel LEWIS, Terry Frost, Scolar Press, 1994.