Winston Churchill: Statesman and Artist

The responsibilities assumed Winston Churchill during the Second World War prevented him from approaching then brushes. It should be recalled that after the Casablanca Conference in January 1943, he took a day off and made to paint the tower of the mosque Katoubia in Marrakesh. After the Second World War, and rejected by the electorate, Churchill traveled and painted quite a lot. His last paintings dating from 1957, when he was 83 years old. The hero most of the Second World War, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1953, for his vast work, painted more than five hundred works. Near the end of the road, Churchill wrote: "When I go to heaven, I spend much of my first million years painting and reach the merits."

He is known especially for its landscape scenes, many of which he painted while on holiday in southern France and Morocco. During his life he painted dozens of paintings, of which some are still out in his study of Chartwell.

It was clear that what was (reading, writing, painting, government affairs, construction of a brick wall, politics or war) his concentration was total. Paint challenged his intellect and his creative impulses released, awakening their sense of proportion and beauty. Actually his paintings are like a journey as was in the Middle East, and there are pictures of Jerusalem and Cairo, the Pyramids painted. And in Scotland, Norfolk, France and Italy, also gave brushes and canvases, as in the United States and Canada. In his country house in Kent, however, he painted almost exclusively at home. Are your issues? The house, garden and landscape environment.

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