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Sandra Blow Art

British, 1925-2006
Blow was at the forefront of the post-war avant-garde from an extremely young age, catalysed by studying in Rome and taking Alberto Burri as her lover in 1947. On her return to London, the influential 1950s dealers Gimpel Fils held her first exhibition in 1951; she exhibited with Paolozzi, Pasmore and Adams in Rome in 1952; and had her first solo exhibition in New York a few years later, before being chosen to exhibit in the British Pavillion at the Venice Biennale alongside William Scott, Alan Davie and Kenneth Armitage in 1958. For Sandra Blow, and so many others of her generation, European art was the greatest influence. It was contemporary Italian art that was a foremost influence on Blow’s works of this period, particularly due to her close friendship with Alberto Burri. Unlike Lanyon, Heron and Tilson who travelled to Italy in the 1950s, Blow was studying with Burri in Italy in the late Forties. She travelled throughout Italy and Spain and discovered at first hand the European culture. While Blow did not produce work of her own in Italy, she learnt a great deal from the Italian master of "art informal". Burri worked in the same vein as Tapies, Dubuffet and Afro, using a variety of rough materials into their painted surface such as earth, ash, cement and charred sacking. His example had a powerful effect on the direction of Sandra Blow's own work. She used his materials and began to distil her own form of reductive expressionism, preoccupied with space, matter and movement. American art was also important, and indeed, along with artists as diverse as Alan Davie, Peter Lanyon and William Gear, Blow was to have solo shows in New York in 1956-57. ​ After moving to St. Ives in 1957, Patrick Heron offered Blow accommodation at his home, Eagles Nest, from where she found herself a cottage to rent at nearby Tregerthen. Originally used by D.H. Lawrence in 1916, this cottage had a long association with the arts and was adjacent to the cottage where Trevor Bell and Karl Wescke lived. Blow did not stay long in Cornwall returning to London to teach at the Royal College of Art in 1960 where she was a tutor for 14 years. She won 2nd prize in the John Moores exhibition in Liverpool. She later returned to St Ives in 1994 relocating her studio to live there permanently until her death.
(Biography provided by Rowntree Clark)
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Sandra Blow abstract in sand, signed with atelier stamp, 20th Century
By Sandra Blow
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sandra Blow (British, 1925 – 2006) A Sandy abstract Signed with atelier stamp ‘Sandra Blow estate, St. Ives’ (lower left) Mixed media including sand 9.3/4 x 6.3/8in. (24.8 x 16.1 cm.)
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20th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art

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1970 Sandra Blow abstract watercolour, signed
By Sandra Blow
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Sandra Blow (British, 1925-2006) Abstract, 1970 Watercolour Signed with estate stamp (lower left) 11 x 7 in. (28 x 18 cm.) The late British artist Sandra Betty Blow (1925-2006) came...
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Untitled, 1973 - Acrylic on canvas - Sandra Blow
By Sandra Blow
Located in London, GB
Untitled, 1973 - Acrylic on canvas with aluminium and fibreglass construction, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow Signed and dated on canvas overlap Acrylic on canvas with aluminium...
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Composition II, 1965 - Acrylic, tea and collage on canvas - Sandra Blow
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Located in London, GB
Composition II, 1965 - Acrylic, tea and collage on canvas, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow Signed and dated on reverse Acrylic, tea and collage on canvas 11 1/2 x 10 inches San...
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Green Projection, 1971 - Acrylic on Canvas, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
By Sandra Blow
Located in London, GB
Green Projection, 1971 - Work on Paper, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow Signed and dated on canvas overlap on reverse Acrylic on canvas, with aluminium construction 54 x 48 inches ...
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Abstract in Browns, 1997 - Gouache on board, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
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Located in London, GB
Abstract in Browns, 1997 - Work on Paper, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow Signed and dated Gouache on board 12 x 9 1/2 inches Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered British abstract...
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Yellow Within, 2006 - Acrylic and mixed media, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
By Sandra Blow
Located in London, GB
Yellow Within, 2006 - Work on Paper, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow Signed on reverse Acrylic and mixed media on canvas 24 x 24 inches Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered Britis...
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Untitled, Undated - Mixed Media, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow (Abstract)
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Located in London, GB
Untitled, Undated - Mixed Media, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow (Abstract) Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered British abstraction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries...
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Clodgy - St Ives, Modern British Painting, Abstract Art - Sandra Blow (Abstract)
By Sandra Blow
Located in London, GB
Clodgy - St Ives, Modern British Painting, Abstract Art - Sandra Blow (Abstract) Signed and inscribed with title and date on the canvas overlap Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered ...
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Touchstone 2 - Mixed Media, British Art, Abstraction - Sandra Blow (Abstract)
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Located in London, GB
Touchstone 2 - Mixed Media, British Art, Abstraction - Sandra Blow (Abstract) Signed and inscribed with title and date on the canvas overlap Sandra Blow RA (1925-2006) pioneered Bri...
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