(1925-2006)

Blow's work is preoccupied by space, matter and movement.  Her work is fuelled by the Renaissance principles of geometry, light and scale, she set about treating form with its own innate reality and rejecting subject matter in terms of representation. 

Born in London, Blow studied at St Martin’s School of Art from 1941-46 and then the Royal Academy before leaving for Italy where Alberto Burri introduced her to the potentials of collage and tensions that could be developed from different textures from where she distilled her own style of reductive abstract expressionism.

Sandra has exhibited at the Tate Gallery, London in 1963, 1967 and 1985 and had a retrospective exhibition at the Royal Academy.

Throughout the 1950’s Sandra enjoyed regular one-man shows at Gimpel Fills, London and has soon exhibited all over the world.

In 1978 Sandra was elected Royal Academician and in 1994 the Royal Academy honoured her achievements with a solo show.  She continues to be one of the leaders of the post war British abstract movement.