WINSTON CHURCHILL

I first became aware of Winston Churchill as an artist when I was living in Los Angeles in 2004. I was browsing in Dutton’s Books, an antique bookshop, when I found a competent watercolour painting that was signed “Winston Churchill”. I contacted David Coombs, the authority on Churchill, and he told me it couldn’t be by the former Prime Minister, as he had never painted in watercolour.

It was then that my awareness of Churchill’s actual paintings began. This instigated a close relationship with David who, along with Minnie Churchill, Winston’s granddaughter-in-law, has devoted many years to recording all Churchill’s paintings.

The idea of writing my new book, , was suggested by my artist friend Karl Terry back in 2015. We had found ourselves painting in several locations that Churchill had painted in the south of France. I was also surprised by how