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.to
2
2
7
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
10
1
1
1
10
5
4
2
9
8
8
6
6
11
7,820
5,167
2,504
1,501
2
11
Artist: Sandra Blow
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.)
Category
20th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Mixed Media
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...
Category
20th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Untitled
By Sandra Blow
Located in London, GB
Signed on reverse
Tea, ash and acrylic on canvas
36 x 65 1/2 inches
Category
1960s Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Composition II, 1965 - Acrylic, tea and collage on canvas - Sandra Blow
By Sandra Blow
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Tea
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
...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Abstract in Browns, 1997 - Gouache on board, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow
By Sandra Blow
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Untitled, Undated - Mixed Media, British Abstraction - Sandra Blow (Abstract)
By Sandra Blow
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
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 ...
Category
1990s Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Touchstone 2 - Mixed Media, British Art, Abstraction - Sandra Blow (Abstract)
By Sandra Blow
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...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Related Items
Ryewater Farm diptych left Panel, Original Painting, Landscape, Nature, Flowers
By Elaine Kazimierczuk
Located in Deddington, GB
This is the left panel of what was originally a diptych, hence the name, but the right panel is no longer available. A new right panel will be made shortly. This painting in delicate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
H 40.56 in W 40.56 in D 1.34 in
Walking in Circles - Layered Geometric Abstract Modernist Landscape Painting
By Heny Steinberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mexican artist Heny Steinberg’s abstracted landscapes invite us to travel from the map to the localized event. The shapes within Steinberg’s work transcend two dimensional representa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
H 35 in W 35 in D 1.5 in
Birch (Abedul) Original Minimalist Layered Mid-Century Modern Abstract Painting
By Heny Steinberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mexican artist Heny Steinberg’s abstract artworks invite us to travel from the map to the localized event. She is suggesting that the spatial memory guidelines reside in the relatio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Mixed Media
Lead The River to the Sun
By Jason Andrew Turner
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Lead The River to the Sun" is an original painting by Jason Andrew Turner on canvas measuring 28in x 28in.
Biography // Jason Andrew Turner was born in 1982 in Birmingham, AL. He p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Spray Paint
"#224 – ABANDONED, SEPARATED", ink, pencil, gouache, found book, poetry, virus
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#224 – ABANDONED, SEPARATED" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist works directly onto page 224 of a found copy of Ernest ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
"#186 – WOUNDED WERE COMING", ink, pencil, gouache, found vintage book, poetry
By Amy Williams
Located in Toronto, Ontario
"#186 – WOUNDED WERE COMING" is from Amy Williams' series A Farewell to Arms – wherein the artist works directly onto pages of a found copy of Ernest Hemingway's WWII romance novel. The artist selects certain words and phrases from page 186 to isolate as a poem, and then draws, inks, redacts and paints the rest of the page according to the text. The resulting poem reads "The wounded were coming / men that were scared / I felt the rain in my face / It was getting dark." – Hemingway's novel is a doomed romance between a wounded American soldier and an Italian nurse – note the feminine form on the page, with a "dress" or apron that looks skeletal, bloody and rained upon, all at once.
From Amy Williams – "My recent work is focused on making treated book pages using a found vintage...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
Handmade Paper Art For Sale, Abstract Art, Letter Art-On All Counts I
By Addison Jones
Located in Delaware , OH
Handmade Paper Art For Sale, Abstract Art, Letter Art-On All Counts I
A B O U T T H I S P I E C E :
“On All Counts I” is a piece of letter art that is featured on unique handmade ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper
Layered Plan #6 (Abstract Geometric Black & White Mixed Media Collage on Paper)
By Donise English
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract geometric mixed media collage in black, white, and grey with details of bright red
"Layered Plan #6", made by Hudson Valley artist, Donise English, in 2009
15 x 12 inches, 2...
Category
2010s Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Ink, Gouache
H 21.5 in W 17.5 in D 1.5 in
Partly Perpendicular (Abstract Geometric Painting in Red, Orange, Green & Blue)
By Vincent Pomilio
Located in Hudson, NY
Colorful abstract geometric painting in various shades of red, orange, green and blue, with accents of white, black, pink and light yellow
"Partly Perpendicular", made by Hudson Vall...
Category
2010s Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Canvas, Plaster, Wax, Acrylic, Pigment
"Delaware Water Gap"
By Lloyd Raymond Ney
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Lloyd R. Ney (1893 – 1964)
Called “Bill” by his friends, Lloyd Ney was one of the pioneers of Modernist art in New Hope. Ne...
Category
1940s Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Graphite
William DeKoornbolt "Wonton Malice" Original Mixed Media Abstract Painting c.198
Located in San Francisco, CA
William DeKoornbolt "Wonton Malice" Original Mixed Media Abstract Painting c.1981
Fine mixed media abstract painting by noted artist William DeKoo...
Category
Late 19th Century Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Paper, Acrylic, Pencil
Red Eclipse - Geometric Abstract Original Mixed Media Painting
By Heny Steinberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mexican artist Heny Steinberg’s abstracted landscapes invite us to travel from the map to the localized event. The shapes within Steinberg’s work transcend two dimensional representa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Sandra Blow Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Sandra Blow art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Sandra Blow art available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of art to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of orange, yellow and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Sandra Blow in paint, acrylic paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the abstract style. Not every interior allows for large Sandra Blow art, so small editions measuring 7 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Sir Terry Frost, Lee Herring, and Glyn Morgan. Sandra Blow art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1,073 and tops out at $82,035, while the average work can sell for $24,776.