 Blow's architectural work was very much influenced by his mentors Ruskin, William Holman Hunt and Philip Webb, the architect of Clouds (1886).In his early career he adopted the role of the wandering architect, travelling artisan-like with his own band of masons from project to project.He married the aristocratic and intellectual Winifred Tollemache, and began to be patronised by the higher échelons of the British aristocracy.