Born in 1936 in Bridlington, Yorkshire Frank Beanland studied at Slade School of Fine Art 1959-61, Hull College of Art 1952-57. He lived in Cornwall 1962-4 and moved to East Anglia 1966.

He won a Boise Scholarship and studied in Stockholm 1962, lectured at Swansea College of Art 1964-5, was resident at the Michael Karolyi Memorial Foundation Venice 1965-6, and was later artist-in-residence at the Centre Artistique de Rencontres Internationales, Nice 1973.

Frank exhibited under the banner of the Porthleven Group from 1962 to 1964.

He then embarked on an impressive exhibiting career, and received many commissions for screens and printed textiles for hospitals, churches and private homes.

More recent works on paper build on the 'serial' style Frank has developed and are no less arresting and successful: "My paintings are all about asking questions, testing, tempering the surface to achieve a closer approximation to my vision". Working from a remote barn, Frank's influences are multifarious and deep; nature, his surroundings and experience inform his deceptively simple abstract works.