Terry Frost Colour Rhythm Newlyn, 1997

Sir Terry Frost (RA) (1915-2003) is one of Britain's most significant artists, with a career spanning six decades. Part of the pioneering generation of British abstract artists associated with St Ives, Cornwall, during the 1950s, Frost is renowned for his poetic forms. Often with bright and exhilarating colours and shapes sparking off each other like electric charges, his work radiates energy outwards.

Frost's abstraction is based on the formal depiction of motion and gesture, creating his own energetic emblems and symbols of crescents, spirals, and semi-circles, generally hanging or balanced in the composition. His prints are not a reproduction or delineation of nature; he was interested in depicting space, light, and colour, and the complex relationship between the three components in the world. 

Terry Frost is represented in public collections including Tate, Victoria & Albert Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.