S R Bhusan: Recent Paintings

Since the early sixties, down to right now ought, surely, be deemed a long enough stretch of time, to have gotten to know the work of any one particular painter! Well, one should never be too categorical. Even so, if one may say it, I have been acquainted with Sudhi Ranjan Bhusan's works for years. And thus, looking at the latest crop - of the last five years - sends my mind hurtling backwards into his very first shows. There were those collages, still something of a novelty on the local scene! I watched the medium change, evolve and mellow in his hands…