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Since having been forced out of the art institution that he founded and painstakingly built for nearly 40 years in 2002, the artist has returned to painting figurative in oil, in bigger volume and sizes. His focus on fishermen on the beach - at the break of dawn, or unraveling the day’s work at dusk - is about working with nature and in nature. The figures milling around the boats at the bottom of the painting are set as minuscule digits against the sedately mauve expanse of sky, sea and the distant horizon with a glow of salmon pink, exuding a calming effect.