Terry Frost (1915-2003)
Terry Frost, an abstract painter and printmaker, was born in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire. He enlisted in the army in 1939 and was taken prisoner of war in June 1941. In the POW camp he met Adran Heath who encouraged him to paint. After World War II in 1945 he attended evening classes at Birmingham School of Art and in the following year relocated to St Ives, Cornwall where he attended St. Ives School of Painting. In 1947 he held his first solo exhibition in Downing’s bookshop in St Ives. He did not paint his first abstract painting until 1949 and during the next decade was associated with the short-lived Constructionism movement. For a time, he was a studio assistant to sculptor Barbara Hepworth. On his return to Cornwall in 1974 he settled in Newlyn.