He studied at Westminster School of Art from 1937 and at the Slade School from 1938 to 1940. In 1945 he settled at Zennor, near St Ives. At first he worked figuratively but soon evolved a dynamic, more abstract style. Terry Frost was an abstract painter born in 1915 at Leamington Spa. He worked at various jobs concerned with radio and electricity and started painting whilst a prisoner of war in Germany in 1943. He moved to St Ives 1946 and studied under Leonard Fuller. Later he again lived in St Ives between 1959 and 1963 before moving to Banbury