article_snippet: the late Prime Minister’s took up the hobby at the age of 41 and continued painting in a figurative style into the late Prime Minister’s 80s, producing more than 500 works.
article_snippet: Lady Soames’s also asked that Coast Scene near Cannes should remain in the Houses of Parliament and that View From a Bathing Hut at the Miami Surf Club stays in the Churchill War Rooms.
article_snippet: Lady Soames, who died last June at the age of 91, previously described how painting ‘literally ‘grabbed’ Lady Soames
article_snippet: Lady Soames’s credited the hobby for ‘playing an increasing and abiding role in the late Prime Minister’s life, renewing the source of the late Prime Minister’s great inner strength and enabling the late Prime Minister’s to face storms, ride out depressions and rise above the tough passages in the late Prime Minister’s political life’.
highlights_snippet: However, several of the works will remain at Winston Churchill's's hotels .