Churchill’s articles on the pleasures of painting appeared in the in 1921 and 1922, netting him the handsome sum of £1000 (considerably more than his paintings would earn him in his lifetime, of course). Clementine was cautious: ‘I expect the professionals would be vexed & say you do not yet know enough about Art’. Mary, his daughter, later wrote that Clementine was ‘in principle opposed to Winston’s writing what she regarded as “pot-boilers” to boost their domestic economy’. But Churchill, the professional writer (and now passionate painter), prevailed; his articles were a great success, explaining vividly why such pleasure was to be found in painting. Painting also provided consolation and peace in times of despair and grief.