S J LAMORNA BIRCH: CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
S J LAMORNA BIRCH: CAREER HIGHLIGHTS On 20 October 2025, David Tovey gave a lecture to the Friends on the career of Lamorna Birch. This
October 22, 2025
S J LAMORNA BIRCH: CAREER HIGHLIGHTS On 20 October 2025, David Tovey gave a lecture to the Friends on the career of Lamorna Birch. This
Introducing our newest Trustees Ann Morris – First my Cornish background. My father was born and died in the white painted granite cottage on a
Last winter the UK had 29% above average rainfall, and parts of the Penlee House roof couldn’t cope. The rain came through the roof…and buckets
We are delighted to report that Penlee House Gallery & Museum has been successful in acquiring There is Music in the Night by Frank Gascoigne
LATEST ACQUISITIONS Other recent acquisitions include two watercolour portraits of Thomas Cooper Gotch and Caroline Gotch by William Wainwright, kindly donated by Pep and John
Latest Acquisitions The latest acquisition to Penlee’s collection comes courtesy of long-time benefactor, George Bednar. This 1908 painting by Lamorna Birch is the fifty-second item
Our annual subscription rates will rise from 1 April 2024. The new rates will be: single membership £25; joint membership £42. Life membership subscriptions will
The latest acquisition by the Friends of Penlee House is a delightful oil on panel by Elizabeth Forbes, entitled Autumn Breeze.The painting was last exhibited
One lesser-known aspect of the Lamorna story that will feature in the Lamorna Colony Pioneers exhibition will be a display of Lamorna Pottery.There have been
Two portraits of local artist Midge Bruford were on display at Penlee’s exhibition, Artists by Themselves. In the first, possibly dating from the late 1930s,