Show dates: 14 – 31 August 2010

Anthony Frost

”I don’t know what my intentions are while painting, all I do is paint and I try to keep it as simple as that…”
A landscape artist presents the viewer with the illusion of deep space. Compels us to believe that we could walk down that road into the painting. most abstract art is about the reality of the picture plain. It requires the eye to engage with the surface of the painting and to enjoy the way in which a colour resonates with its neighbours.
Anthony Frost is a great example of such an artist. He is an abstract expressionist who believes that the heart should dictate his painterly decisions rather than the head. To this end he plays music of ‘The Fall’, and other rock bands at every stage of making, even when he is collaging material onto the canvas in the prepatory stages. It is a sort of inspirational distraction.

Once the collage stage is complete he begins to paint. Still playing his music he reinforces the reality of his original patches by painting them in a range of colours that actively vibrate where they touch. After the initial painting it is the music of the colour itself that becomes his inspiration.
Painter & Printmaker Anthony Frost is noted for his abstract works consisting of brightly-coloured prints and collages. Frost was born in St. Ives in 1951 and is firmly rooted in West Cornwall, where he lives and works and is a prominent member of the flourishing artistic community there.

From 1970-1973 he studied at the Cardiff College of Art gaining a BA (Hons) in Fine Art. Since then Frost has lectured on his subject at Falmouth School of Art, Canterbury School of Art, University of East London and Anglia Ruskin University. His work has been exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the UK and overseas including Germany and Santa Monica, America.His work is in a number of corporate, public and private collections including The Nuffield Trust, John Moores, Contemporary Arts Society, Whitworth Gallery (Manchester) and Standard Life.

Recent exhibitions include:

“Art Now Cornwall” exhibition at Tate St Ives
”Surface Noise”, Beaux Arts, London 2005
”Lunar Notes – Neon Dreams”, Advanced Graphics, London
”Zig Zag Wanderer: New Work”, The Somerville Gallery, Plymouth