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Sir Terry Frost was born in
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
He joined the Territorial
Army in 1932 and in 1939
Frost was called up for
service in the Second World
War during which he was
captured. In the POW camps,
Frost met the young artist
Adrian Heath who
encouraged him to paint
and draw. After returning to
Britain, Frost studied at
the St. Ives School of
Painting in Cornwall, then,
on an ex-serviceman grant,
he attended Camberwell
School of Art, London from
1947-1950.

During his time in art
schools, Frost was
encouraged and guided by
tutors and artists
including Ben Nicholson,
Peter Lanyon, Victor Pasmore
and Barbara Hepworth for
whom he later worked briefly
as an assistant. Frost was
also greatly influenced by
the Tate's exhibition of
American Abstract
Expressionists. His early
work was figurative in
the tradition of Euston Road
realism yet it included
objects simplified into
coloured shapes which
became the vocabulary of his
later, abstract works, the
first of which "Madrigal",
was made in 1959. Frost
worked primarily in the
mediums of paint and
print which he considered
inseparable, with each
creating ideas for the other.