Terry Frost spent some time in Cyprus teaching at the Cyprus College of Art in Lemba village, Paphos, after 1974. Inspired by the hot summer sun of the island, he executed a series of paintings with the sun as their main theme. An oil of the Paphos sun series places the sun in the middle of four petals, creating the image of a flower. Blue wavy lines are the artist’s statement on the geographical seclusion of Cyprus as an island. The work is executed in strong warm colours alluding to the heat.
Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost RA (13 October 1915 – 1 September 2003) was a British abstract artist who worked in Newlyn, Cornwall. Frost was renowned for his use of the Cornish light, colour and shape to start a new art movement in England. He became a leading exponent of abstract art and a recognised figure of the British art establishment. His first exhibition was at the Leicester Galleries in the heart of London's West End. Frost's academic career included teaching at Bath Academy of Art and the Coventry College of Art, while he was appointed on the recommendation of Herbert Read as the Gregory Fellow on Painting (1954-1956) at the University of Leeds. There he befriended the painter Stass Paraskos, who would later invite Frost to spend time working and teaching in Cyprus at the Cyprus College of Art.
PNT-00255 > Terry Frost (1915-2003), Paphos Sun Series, Oil on canvas, 56x50cm, 1984
