Blow's architectural work was very much influenced by his mentors Ruskin and William Holman Hunt, and in his early career he travelled artisan-like with his own band of masons from project to project.
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.