Sandra Blow was born in London on September 14th 1925. She spent her childhood in Kent and enrolled at St Martin's School of Art when she was only fifteen years old. She went on to study at the Royal Academy Schools, and from there on to Rome, to the Accademia di Belle Arti. It was in Rome that Blow spent a formative year in the company of the great Italian artist Alberto Burri, looking at frescoes, paintings, rundown churches and palazzi and absorbing the natural beauty of the landscape, at a time when the country was visably suffering the aftermath of the war.
