Biography
 Born in
London in 1925, Sandra’s innovative approach to painting during in
1950’s insured her position as one of the leaders of the post war
British abstract movement.
Sandra studied at St. Martin’s (1941-6)
and then the Royal Academy School’s, before leaving for Italy.
Alberto Burri introduced Sandra to the potentials of collage and
the tensions between textures therein. From her mentor Sandra
distilled her own form of reductive abstract expressionism,
preoccupied with space, matter and movement.
Fuelled also by the Renaissance
principles of geometry, light and scale, Sandra set about
treating form with its own innate reality and rejecting subject
matter in terms of representation. “I can remember that
extraordinary sense of shedding everything, of leaving all the
known tracks. And then just looking for something that could be
my own, of interpreting the actual structure of the painting
which seems to connect with abstract-structure and space – and
find my own language in it!” Throughout the fifties Sandra
enjoyed regular one-man shows at Gimpel Fils, London and had
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.
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