Terry Frost (1915–2003) discovered his talent for art in the early 1940s, when he was a prisoner of war in Crete with former Slade student Adrian Heath. This first full-length biography traces his life from his working-class upbringing in the Midlands to his settling in St Ives in 1974, recalling a career in which he taught extensively and explored different artistic styles, shifting from representational images to abstraction and geometric designs.