Figures on a Beach

This must be among the first of Dad’s rather surreal pictures using figures (often nude) as sculptural beings in their own right rather than just the incidental population of a beach. I call this a Lepe Beach picture though not in a strict sense. The construction in the sea ( of which there are two) lie round the corner on the way to Calshot where during the War there were concrete causeways for loading tanks onto carriers in the sea. They were never used. When I was a child, the grimness of this area always filled me with a delighted horror.