In a life dedicated to figuration, Jamie Frost searches for meaning within material and form, projecting a dual sense of the figure as a powerful and vulnerable force. 

In his painted works on paper, clean open colour fields are occupied by bold figure-marks. The activity on the surface is sparing but persuasive, suggesting all that is bodily. Coiled up energy barely released, sopping wet brush marks. When making sculpture Jamie throws hunks of moist green timber together in dynamic poses, punctuating them with delicate and intimately carved details.

Jamie’s work has been shown widely, including a major touring solo exhibition of sculpture and drawing. Features and interviews include: Creative Boom; Considering Art podcast; The Yorkshire Post; The Guardian; The Times; Daily Telegraph, among others. Recently he was shortlisted for the Alpine Fellowship Visual Arts Prize, the Cotswold Sculpture Park ‘sculpture of the year’ award and the New Light Sculpture Prize. Previously he has been awarded accolades for drawing and sculpture, including membership of the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Society of Portrait Sculptors’ Talos award. 

Jamie’s studio practice is interwoven with his role as a teacher. For nearly twenty years he has taught classes in life drawing, painting and sculpture. Participants spend time making and learning in Jamie’s studio. This is a shared way of learning and creating that he is immensely proud of.