Anthony Frost Comes Of Age

Orangehat is in Chapel St Penzance to meet Anthony Frost. Anthony has just turned 60 but you wouldn't know it. Full of energy and life there is definitely something of the Peter Pan about him.

Chapel St Penzance

These days Anthony Frost creates his paintings in a large purpose built studio, light and airy it overlooks the sweep of Mounts Bay. It's a far cry from his previous studio, a pokey little net loft in which you couldn't swing a cat. The newer abode is however gradually beginning to take on the former's appearance with paint
splattered walls, stacks of paints, materials, finished works, notes, scribbled envelopes, cd's, invites and adhoc bits and pieces scattered in a kind of unique yet uniform randomness.

Anthony Frost

So back to turning 60 and Anthony has just thrown a party, taking over a local hotel in it's entirety and filling it with family and close friends. One of the highlights of the night was apparently a performance by Camborne Rappers Hedluv and Passman (Doin it Dreckly) featuring a singer who dances around in his underpants singing "We are Weird!"

You can check them out here: http://hedluvandpassman.wordpress.com/

Mark E Smith of the Fall was invited too enquiring after the nearest airport to Mousehole but only making it as far as Bristol (apparently he had been performing in Berlin) So by all accounts it was a night to remember or at least one that some wish that they could remember!

Following on from his late father Sir Terry was never going to be easy but with the passing years Anthony Frost has come into his own with a seemingly new found artistic confidence and self assurance.This not only openly translates into his paintings but also into all that he undertakes. Indeed he is a very busy man with numerous TV and Radio appearances, workshops on cruise ships, performing with his friends and poets Phil Bowen and Bob Devereaux and yet still managing to teach to a class of 'his' ladies and fit in his traditional coffee with his old friend and painter Bob Bourne. Add to this list the administering of his late Father's estate and you realise that how he finds time to paint at all is probably the biggest mystery.

Anthony Frost raises his game

Along with the increase in studio space has perhaps arrived an increased expectation, the passing of so many of the Greats of the 20th Century has left Anthony Frost as one of the elder statesmen and leading lights in the Cornish Contemporary art scene. One of many of a new wave of artists only too aware of in whose footsteps they tread.
The New Wave is definitely in safe hands.

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