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Sir Terry Frost
 
Biography
 

1915 - 2003, Leamington Spa. Terry Frost first began to paint as a prisoner of war.  Returning to England, he received an ex-serviceman's grant and attended Camberwell School of Art, London from 1947 to 1950.  He went on to teach art the Bath Academy of Art at Corsham Court from 1952, and was the Gregory Fellow at Leeds University 1954 to 1956, teaching at Leeds School of Art from 1956 to 1957.  He was made Artist in residence at the Fine Art Department of Newcastle University in 1964, became a full time lecturer at the Department of Fine Art, Reading University 1965, and went on to become Professor of Painting at the University of Reading from 1977 to 1981.  Frost's first one-man show was held at the Leicester Galleries in 1952.  He continued to exhibit regularly in London and his fist international one-man show was held in 1961 at the Betha Schaeffer Galley, New York.  Further solo exhibitions include the ICA, London (1971) and the Serpentine Galley, London (1976) organised by the Arts Council and South West Arts, touring to Newcastle, Bristol, Leeds, Chester, Birmingham and Plymouth. A retrospective exhibition of his work was held at the Mayo Galley, London in 1990 and in 2000 a major retrospective, ‘Terry Frost: Six Decades’, was held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London.  Frost also participated in many group shows since 1953, and his work is held in many corporate and private collections throughout the world.  Terry Frost was elected Royal Academician 1992 and received a knighthood in 1998.  He lived and worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. 

 

Red on Yellow Rhythm
Screenprint with Collage
2003 ed 70
32x81
£1900 framed
   
Red Black on Green
Screenprint
1968 ed 75
56x75
poa framed
   
Untitled
Lithograph
1997 ed 40
75x53
£1200 framed
   
Untitled
Lithograph
1975 ed 90
48x68
£1300 framed
   
Pause of the Clock
Etching 1990
76x57
£850
   
Red Black and White
Screenprint with collage
ed 120
40x20
£1,200
   
Orchard Sunbursts 1
Screenprint with collage
1999
ed 25
29x29
£650

   
Orchard Sunbursts 3
Screenprint with collage
1999
ed 25
29x29
£650

   
Orchard Sunbursts 5
Screenprint with collage
1999
ed 25
29x29
£650

   
Orchard Sunbursts 6
Screenprint with collage
1999
ed 25
29x29
£650

   
Orchard Sunbursts 2
Screenprint with collage
1999
ed 25
29x29
£650
SOLD

   
Orchard Sunbursts 4
Screenprint with collage
1999
ed 25
29x29
£650
SOLD

   
Camberwell Green
Etching and collage
2001
ed275
50x46
£600
SOLD

   

Long Red Yellow Black
Screenprint
ed 150
47x94
£950
SOLD

   
Untitled
watercolour and collage
1995
19 x 9
£1,650
SOLD

   
Red on Yellow Rhythm
screenprint
ed 70
101x51
£2000
SOLD

   

watercolour and collage
1991
13x17
£2,400
SOLD

   
Development of a square within a square
Screenprint
ed 150
58x58
£850
SOLD

   
Swing Blue
2002
Screenprint
ed 150
79x55
£950
SOLD

   

Vertical Rhythms
2003
Screenprint & collage
edition 125
37 x 37
£950
SOLD

   

Elegy in Black
1992
edition of 50
Lithograph
20.5" x 24.5"
£875
SOLD

   
Malaga, Blue and Orange
screenprint
1999
ed 150
61x59
£1,000
SOLD
   
Water colour and collage
1992
14x9
poa
SOLD

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