Born on 04 August 1877, Laura Johnson Knight “Orovida”, English painter and designer who died on 07 July 1970.
She was born Laura Johnson, in Long Eaton, Derbyshire and later moved with her mother and two sisters to Nottingham. She attended Nottingham School of Art in 1880 where she met her future husband, the painter Harold Knight [1874-1961]. They arrived in Newlyn in 1907, attracted by the more energetic climate of the Newlyn colony when compared to Staithes, a little fishing village on the Yorkshire coast where she had previously worked. The Knights stayed in West Cornwall until 1918, living first in Newlyn but later joining the growing colony at Lamorna. She is best known for her coastal scenes and later her circus paintings.
