Sir Terry Frost, RA: A Review

For our Arundel Festival & Gallery Trail exhibition this year (1 to 25 August 2014) we are very pleased to present a Review of work by Sir Terry Frost, RA (1915-2003).
Working with his estate, we will show paintings (oil, gouache and watercolour), works on paper and prints (screen prints and woodcuts).
James Stewart, gallery director says “We have worked with Anthony Frost for a number of years, and now also Luke Frost, so it made sense to look back at the work of Terry Frost for the Arundel Festival and review his work in this context and close the centenary of his birth” Stewart continued “We have had unique access to select works which have not been seen for some time, and also pieces which people may not immediately associate with Sir Terry Frost, RA.”
In a career lasting over 60 years Terry Frost is recognised as one of the UK's foremost abstract painters, exhibiting regularly in London and throughout the world.
Having attended evening art classes from the age of 16, Terry Frost’s interest in painting started seriously when he was interned as a prisoner of war in Germany in 1943 with Adrian Heath. After the war he moved to St Ives and studied under Leonard Fuller before attending the Camberwell school, of Art under Passmore and Coldstream. In 1951 he worked as an assistant to Barbara Hepworth.
Terry Frost held many teaching positions including Bath Academy, Leeds University, Leeds College of Art before becoming Artist in Residence at the department of Fine Art Reading University in 1965, later he was the University’s Professor of Painting.
The owners of Badcock's Gallery, in Sir Terry's home town of Newlyn, said "His unique ability to allow the joy of life to emanate from his work reduces the formal qualities of painting to a simplicity that is the unforgettable trade mark of this remarkable man."
Printmaking always played a key role in his work. For Terry Frost painting and printing were inseparable, with one medium creating ideas for the other.
Elected a Royal Academician in 1992, he was knighted in 1998. He exhibited extensively in Britain and the United States, and his work is held in museums and galleries worldwide, including Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert and the British Museum.
In 2000 the Royal Academy staged a major retrospective of Frost's work to coincide with his 85th birthday.
In 2013 “Terry Frost: A Painter’s Life” was published to mark ten years since Terry Frost’s death. The author Roger Bristow has written the first full-length biography of the artist. The Zimmer Stewart Gallery will have signed copies available during the exhibition.
In early 2015 Tate St Ives will exhibit works by Terry Frost to mark the centenary of his birth.