The figure forms here are looser and more fragmented, ambiguous even, with some colours bleeding into one another, compared to his normal renditions. It's another of Khalil Ibrahim's beach scene, though the gender of the figures seems less obvious, and what they are doing is also left to conjecture: are they hauling net, perhaps, or something else? The limbs are summarily rendered. This is one rare work where Khalil plays with discoloration to dissemble distinct outlines. Khalil Ibrahim had the distinction of not really having to serve back the government after winning a Pahang State scholarship to study Art (National Diploma of Design in Fine Arts) at St. Martin's School of Art in London. He won the scholarship on the merit of his painting of a fisherman which won 2nd Prize in the Malayan Life national art competition in 1959. He had been a fulltime artist since his return in September 1966. It was one solo after another since his first in 1970 held at the Samat Art Gallery in Kuala Lumpur, of his batiks and watercolours. That year, 1970, he also exhibited in Indonesia, arguably the first Malaysian to have done so. He was also a co-founder of the Malaysian Watercolour Society, having joined the painting expeditions to Sweden (Simrikshawn to Uppsala) and India (New Delhi to Nainital / Joelikot). However, he could not paint much after suffering a stroke in 2012. Khalil was honored with the exhibition A Continued Dialogue, at Galeri Petronas, Kuala Lumpur, in 2004.