![]() The erratic pendulum of politics afforded him the opportunity to verify that the attraction of painting was no mere infatuation. Without intending any insult, he put "la peinture 'a l'eau" in second place. Never again did he feel the slightest inhibition.Ĭharacteristically, Churchill's first word of advice to budding artists was "audacity." He was a strong proponent of oils. "But what are you hesitating about? Let me have a brush - the big one." She showed him that a brush was a weapon to subdue a blank, intimidating canvas by firing paint at it to dazzling effect. The novitiate was caught by the wife of Sir John Lavery (distinguished leader of the Glasgow school of painting) tentatively handling a small brush." Painting!" she exclaimed. Yet a sense of awe seemed to impose restraint. As he put it: ".experiments with a child's paint-box led me the next morning to produce a complete outfit in oils." Unfamiliarity with technique could not lessen his determination discipline - and lessons - would have to wait. He had found his other world - a respite from crowding events and pulsating politics. He enjoyed holding forth in speech and print on the aesthetic rewards for amateur devotees. His art quickly became half passion, half philosophy. ![]() Over a period of forty-eight years his creativity yielded more than 500 pictures. He possessed the heightened perception of the genuine artist to whom no scene is commonplace. The compositional challenge of depicting a landscape gave the heroic rebel in him temporary repose. The Artist Winston Churchill Half Passion, Half PhilosophyĬhurchill was forty before he discovered the pleasures of painting.
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