Distant View of the Pyramids 1921

Winston Churchill captured this ‘Distant View of the Pyramids’ with oil on canvas, and you can almost feel him there, can’t you? Imagine him standing before this vast, ancient scene, squinting into the horizon as he tries to figure out what the hell he’s even doing making a painting in the first place. The sweeping brushstrokes in the sky, moving from blue to a golden yellow, feel quick, like he’s chasing the light. I bet he had to work fast. I love the texture of the paint, kinda thin in places, which lets the canvas peek through. The pyramids themselves are soft, like a memory and the sun's path shimmers like a snake making its way across the desert. It makes me think about all the other Sunday painters out there, like me, fumbling around trying to put a feeling onto canvas. We’re all kind of in conversation, trading brushstrokes and ideas across time.