Daybreak at Cassis, near Marseilles 1920

Winston Churchill made "Daybreak at Cassis, near Marseilles" with oil on canvas, and it's like stepping right into a sun-dappled morning. The greens and yellows create this amazing tunnel vision effect, drawing you right in! I can almost feel the breeze he must have felt painting this, imagining him squinting in the Mediterranean light trying to capture that particular shade of early morning glow. There’s this kid standing on the path. Are they waiting for someone? I like the surface and the way the paint has been applied in a free, loose way. It gives the painting an impressionistic feel, like he was trying to capture a fleeting moment. It’s funny to think of a politician like Churchill making paintings like this. It shows how artists are in dialogue across time, inspiring each other. What might seem simple is actually a complex mix of observation and intuition. It reminds us that painting can be a way of seeing and thinking, a form of embodied expression that can be interpreted in so many ways.