Samuel John "Lamorna" Birch, RA, RWS (1869 - 1955) was an artist in oils and watercolours.
Lamorna Birch was born in Egremont in Cheshire. He was self-taught as an artist, other than for a brief period of study at the Atelier Colarossi in Paris during 1895.
He settled in Lamorna, Cornwall in 1902, and many of his most famous pictures date from this time and the beautiful Lamorna Cove is usually their subject matter.
He exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1892. He held his first one man exhibition at the Fine Art Society in 1906.
The nickname "Lamorna" was given to him by the Newlyn School artist, Stanhope Forbes, to distinguish him from Lionel Birch, who was also working in the area at that time.
He settled in Lamorna, Cornwall in 1902, and many of his most famous pictures date from this time and the beautiful Lamorna Cove is usually their subject matter.
The nickname "Lamorna" was given to him by the Newlyn School artist, Stanhope Forbes[?], to distinguish him from Lionel Birch[?], who was also working in the area at that time.
An exhibition of his paintings realised sufficient sales to enable the family to move down to Cornwall in 1923 and, encouraged by LamornaBirch, they settled in Lamorna.
Initially, their home was an old Army hut behind the local pub, The Wink, and times were hard as Gardiner studied further at the Forbes School in 1926.
However, as he developed his own style of landscape painting, which was heavily influenced by Birch, success began to come his way and the family moved down the valley to Lily Cottage, where the Lamorna stream comes tumbling through the garden.
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