During the mid '90s Sandra Blow returned permanently to St Ives after being invited by the artist Ken Turner. Blow took on a lease of one of the Porthmeor studios, a place notorious for painters associated with St Ives in the post war decade. Blow's studio was once occupied by Karl Weschke and Patrick Heron occupied a studio across the courtyard.

For Blow the most inspiring element of her studio was the view of the sea across Porthmeor beach. It was during the period between 1995 and 1997 that the focus of her work moved from the formation of the landscape to the sea itself. Paintings from the Porthmeor Series are concerned with the effects of line and shape in the sand generated by the tides, these motifs can be seen in Wave Sequence and recur throughout her work in the late 1990s. Not only the linear and angular patterns of the beach reverberate in her work but her choice of a pale palette shows 'the strength of the landscape getting into the work', something which is not evident in her earlier work of the 1960s.

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