Intensive Stud Text A Winston churchill His Othealife by Mary Soames 心
Winston Churchill — His Other Life by Mary Soames Text A: Intensive Study
Intensive Stud Winston Churchil- His other life by Mary soames 1 My father, Winston Churchill, began his love affair with painting in his 40s amid disastrous circumstances, as first lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he had been deeply involved in a campaign in the dardanelles that could have shortened the course of a blood world war. But when the mission failed, with great loss of life Churchill paid the price, both publicly and privately: He was removed from the Admiralty and lost his position of political influence 心
Winston Churchill — His Other Life by Mary Soames 1 My father, Winston Churchill, began his love affair with painting in his 40s, amid disastrous circumstances. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1915, he had been deeply involved in a campaign in the Dardanelles that could have shortened the course of a bloody world war. But when the mission failed, with great loss of life, Churchill paid the price, both publicly and privately: He was removed from the Admiralty and lost his position of political influence. Intensive Study
Intensive Stud 2 Overwhelmed by the disaster thought he would die of grief, said his wife, Clementine-he retired with his family to Hoe Farm, a country retreat in Surrey. There, as Churchill later recalled, The muse of painting came to my rescue! 3 One day when he was wandering in the garden, he chanced upon his sister-in-law sketching with watercolors. He watched her for a few minutes then borrowed her brush and tried his hand -and the muse worked her magic. From that day forward, Winston was in love with painting 心
2 Overwhelmed by the disaster – “I thought he would die of grief,”said his wife, Clementine – he retired with his family to Hoe Farm, a country retreat in Surrey. There, as Churchill later recalled, “The muse of painting came to my rescue!” 3 One day when he was wandering in the garden, he chanced upon his sister-in-law sketching with watercolors. He watched her for a few minutes, then borrowed her brush and tried his hand – and the muse worked her magic. From that day forward, Winston was in love with painting. Intensive Study
Intensive Stud Delighted with anything that distracted Winston from the dark thoughts that overwhelmed him, Clementine rushed off to buy whatever paints and materials she could find. Watercolours, oil paints, paper, canvas- Hoe Farm was soon filled with everything a painter could want or need 5 Painting in oils turned out to be Winston's great love-but the first steps were strangely difficult. He contemplated the blank whiteness of his first canvas with unaccustomed nervousness He later recalled 心
4 Delighted with anything that distracted Winston from the dark thoughts that overwhelmed him, Clementine rushed off to buy whatever paints and materials she could find. Watercolours, oil paints, paper, canvas — Hoe Farm was soon filled with everything a painter could want or need. 5 Painting in oils turned out to be Winston's great love – but the first steps were strangely difficult. He contemplated the blank whiteness of his first canvas with unaccustomed nervousness. He later recalled: Intensive Study
Intensive Stud 6" Very hesitantly I selected a tube of blue paint, and with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean on the snow-white field. At that moment i heard the sound of a motorcar in the drive and threw down my brush in a panic. I was even more alarmed when I saw who stepped from the car: the wife of Sir John Lavery, the celebrated painter who lived nearby 心
6 “Very hesitantly I selected a tube of blue paint, and with infinite precaution made a mark about as big as a bean on the snow-white field. At that moment I heard the sound of a motorcar in the drive and threw down my brush in a panic. I was even more alarmed when I saw who stepped from the car: the wife of Sir John Lavery, the celebrated painter who lived nearby. Intensive Study