This painting came from a black and white photograph of a figure which I put into a beach scene. I cropped it a lot to give more muscularity and strength to the pose. I was envisaging Rodin\'s \"The Thinker\" but made it my own. This \"Beach\" series conveys very happy memories and the freedom through solitude that I feel at the beach‚ as well as strong colours‚ shapes and tones.