Black Abstract

Terry Frost comments on his work 'I've said you make your myth and paint it. My memory is what I rely on. A moment of discovery when I happen to be made aware, or aroused by something I discovered, by surprise: that goes into my store and that becomes my time and space and by the time I use it it's myth that I'm working on...What I can't explain is how I get from the story, the memory, the myth, to what I actually make ... The painting has to stand and fall by itself. Like I said about Rubens, people have to appreciate the painting without knowing about the myth' (Exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy, Terry Frost: Six Decades, London, 2000, p. 22).