Untitled 1975

Terry Frost made this untitled print using crayon and screenprint, and the flat colour and looping lines just sing! I can imagine Frost in the print studio, experimenting, intuitively deciding where to place each mark, each shape. There’s something so playful about the contrast between the solid blocks of colour and the scribbled textures. How did he decide on that particular blue, that particular orange? The crayon mark making is so open, so expressive, and then these planes of flat colour are anchoring things. Look at the line that loops around, tying all the elements together - kind of like Cy Twombly might have done. It's like he's wrestling with the possibilities of abstraction, and by leaving it unresolved, Frost invites us to join the conversation, to find our own meaning within the dance of colour and form.