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Sir Peter Blake .
Henri Matisse . Sir Terry Frost RA . Sandra Blow RA . Corinna Button ARE 28th September - 13th October 2007 Private view Thursday 27th September 7 - 10pm
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Sandra Blow R.A
From 1941 Sandra studied at St Martins and the Royal Academy schools but it was in 1947 after moving to Italy that she started her painting career making her mark with strong tonal works using paint and collage. It was here where she met Alberto Burri who introduced her to the potential of collage and the tensions between textures therein. When she returned to London in 1950 she joined the forefront of British Modern Abstract Art. Her success followed quickly achieving international recognition. Sandra spent 44 years in London devoting her working life to developing her abstract art. It was a time that she described as being 'wide open`, her contemporaries were the likes of Bacon, Freud, Frost, Hilton and Pasmore, also the jazzman and art critic George Melly. In 1960 she won the Guggenheim International Award. In 1971 Sandra was elected into the Royal Academy and in 1983 received an Honorary Fellowship. She was honoured with a solo show at the Academy in 1994. Sandra moved to St. Ives, Cornwall in 1994 where she continued to work right up until her sudden death in 2006. She was an inspiration in both her work and her life, any body who had the pleasure of meeting her would have been touched by her vivaciousness and style. COLLECTIONS INCLUDE Arts Council of Great Britain; Chelsea and Westminster Hospital Contemporary Arts Society, London; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; Leeds City Art Gallery; Leicester Museum of Art; Liverpool University; Museum Modern Art, New York; Nuffield Foundation; Tate Gallery; British Council; Victoria and Albert Museum. SANDRA BLOW RA 14.09.1925 - 22.08.06
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