The consensus name is Hair Ice, though the names Frost Beard, Ice Wool, Feather Frost, Silk Frost (my favorite), and Cotton Candy Frost have also been used. It turns out that these formations are quite rare, and have mostly been observed on the Olympic Peninsula and nearby Vancouver Island, and in parts of Europe. I photographed the formations, then used the internet to try and discover more about them. It was distinctly different from the frost flowers we’ve seen emerging from the frozen ground around here, which are thicker and look like they are extruded. I showed Karen, and we agreed that all these patches of hairy ice were sprouting from old branches that were either on the ground or sticking up in the air. This was a cold morning, so there was frost on the Sword Ferns and grasses around our house, but frost has an entirely different look from this hairy ice. There was a bigger blob of the stuff at the end of an old branch, and then I saw a couple more.Įach of the above formations was growing from alder wood I was curious what it was, and I looked around to see if there were any others. ![]() I went over to retrieve it, and discovered that it was actually a patch of ice that seemingly sprouted from the ground and looked to be made up of fine hairs of ice. I walked down the hill to our house, and saw a bright white patch about the size of a discarded Kleenex, which is what I thought it was and I wondered who had been despoiling our yard. That isn’t very cold by midwestern standards, where this winter is bringing temperatures and wind chills far south of -20☏, but it was cold enough to create something extraordinary and beautiful that I have never seen before. Overnight our Olympic Peninsula skies cleared and the temperature plunged to 28☏. Silk Frost, known more widely as Hair Ice, emerging like fine hair from alder branches the tiny water droplets show the ice beginning to melt as the temperature rises (an alternate theory is that it is condensation from the photographer’s breathing on this cold morning) A PLACE APART: Views from a Fire Lookout.ISBN 9781906593780.Join 5,605 other subscribers Recent Posts Terry Frost: The Biography by Roger Bristow. Published by Lund Humphries, Farnham, UK, 2010. Terry Frost prints : A catalogue raisonné by Dominic Kemp. Published by Scolar Press, Aldershot, 1994. Terry Frost : A personal narrative by David Lewis. Abroad his work is in the collections of art galleries and museums in Australia, New Zealand, Israel, USA and Canada.īibliography: Terry Frost, Warm Frost: Featuring the work of Sir Terry Frost, RA by Alison Hodge. They can be seen in the ACGB, Bolton Art Gallery, Bournemouth & Poole College Collection, Cheltenham Art Gallery, Cornwall County Council, GAC, Fitzwilliam Museum, Gulbenkian Foundation, Hepworth Wakefield, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Jerwood Foundation, Leamington Spa Art Gallery, National Museum of Wales, Oldham Art Gallery, Peter Scott Gallery, Pier Arts Centre, Portsmouth Art Gallery, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Stirling University Art Collection, Swindon Art Gallery, Tate Gallery, University of Warwick Art Collection, Ulster Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Frost's estate is handled by and exhibited at Beaux Arts Bath and Beaux Arts London and has also been exhibited at Belgrave Gallery, Austin Desmond Fine Art and at KHG.įrost’s work is in major public collections and galleries across the world including in the UK. Latterly many of his works were reproduced as limited edition prints and sold through outlets like CCA Galleries and the Curwen Gallery. He also exhibited across the UK and indeed on a world-wide basis. In a long and extensively fruitful career he showed at every major art societies in his adopted Cornwall including the STISA and the NSA. Frost taught variously at Leeds School of Art, Bath Academy, Corsham, Coventry Art College and Reading University and received a Knighthood in 1998. He was appointed Gregory Fellow at Leeds University, 1954-56. Ives in 1951 and for a time was a studio assistant to sculptor Barbara Hepworth. He did not paint his first abstract picture until 1949 and from then on his work became totally abstract and during the next decade was associated with the short-lived Constructionism movement. Ives, and that autumn began studying at Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts. In 1947 Frost held his first solo exhibition at G.R. ![]() After the cessation of hostilities in 1945 he began attending evening classes at Birmingham School of Art and the following year he relocated to Cornwall where he attended St. ![]() In the POW camp at Hohenfais, Bavaria, he met Adrian Heath who encouraged him to paint. He enlisted in the army in World War II in 1939 and after serving in Sudan, Abyssinia, Egypt and Crete he was taken prisoner-of-war in June 1941. Abstract painter and printmaker born Terence Ernest Manitou Frost in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire.
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