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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. 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. Frost worked primarily in the mediums of paint and print which he considered inseparable, with each creating ideas for the other. He described his bold, colourful works as being expressive of "a state of delight in front of nature".

Sir Terry Frost was one of the leading figures in the Abstract Art movement in Britain and internationally. In 1992, Frost was elected a Royal Academician and was knighted in 1998. His work is held in many collections worldwide.