Black and White, 1959

Discussing the black and white paintings from the late 1950s, Ronnie Duncan (D. Lewis, Terry Frost A Personal Narrative, Aldershot, 1994, pp. 63-64) comments, 'there was a further dimension to Terry's time in Leeds [as Gregory Fellow at the University, 1954-57], one of incalculable significance to him creatively. He has himself called this 'the true experience of black and white in Yorkshire'. It arose from the impact made upon him by the bleak sparseness of the North, the landscape of the Wolds and the Dales and especially the high Pennines with limestone outcrops intersected by drystone walls running vertically over the contours of the hills'.