Also, under the pseudonym Charles Morin, he sent five paintings to be exhibited at the Paris Salon in the 1920s, where four were sold for £30 each. Early encouragement came from an amateur prize he won for “Winter Sunshine, Chartwell,” a bright reflection of his Kentish home.
in 1947 and were submitted to the Selection Committee under the name ‘David Winter’.Ĭhurchill soon found that watercolours were not his ideal medium, and instead switched to the more robust medium of oil paint – as ‘you can more easily paint over your mistakes’. It was one of the two pictures Churchill exhibited at the R.A. The picture was painted in 1930, and the site lies about five hundred yards from where the main Cagnes to Grasse road crosses the river. I should be glad if these lines induced others to try the experiment which I have tried, and if some at least were to find themselves dowered with an absorbing new amusement delightful to themselves, and at any rate not violently harmful to man or beast.” To have reached the age of forty without ever handling a brush or fiddling with a pencil, to have regarded with mature eye the painting of pictures of any kind as a mystery, to have stood agape before the chalk of the pavement artist, and then suddenly to find oneself plunged in the middle of a new and intense form of interest and action with paints and palettes and canvases, and not to be discouraged by results, is an astonishing and enriching experience. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end, or almost to the end, of the day. “Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. In the National Trust collection at Churchill’s home, Chartwell, Kent Painted during WW1 while Churchill was resting with his men behind the battle lines at Ploegsteert near the front at Ypres.
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