Shyamasree Basu is all involved with the art movement from her student days. Deep within she has also felt the need to withdraw from it all. Time and again she has one just that. Its a sort of internal stock taking. so to speak after each encounter with herself. she has returned to the art scene renewed and transformed, her quick exits and entrances are fascinating and reve_1 an unmistakable vein of nobility. This sincere efforts of retreat and introspection mark her out as an artist of distinguish feat.

In the early 1960s she was on active member of the now famous "Society of Contemporary Artists" -One of the two organisations. "Calcutta Painters" being the other. that ushered the new era in art.

Similarly 5ince the early 1980s she has been the member of "The Group" which restricts its membership to Women Artists only. Group activities apart. she has been able to came out a niche for herself as a serious artist. Stylistically she has kept her distance from the supra-mythmaking expressionists. as well as the extra fantastic. super-realist and ultra-left art of her contemporaries. These styles are still at the heights of fashion.

She has however. steered clear of these alluring straits. passed the siren calls of cerebral and theoretical tunes. Incredible but true. she has depended on her creative imagination and Instincts to interpret the world within and without. .

Her recent paintings are image abstracts of her feeling of doom and disast that the planet earth seems to be fast approaching. On her canvases she has found painterly objective correlations to soil and rock erosion and environmental pollution, Like a prophetess she sings plaintive dirges in colours. She warns that. the days of the new Ur. Babylon. Nineveh. Troy and Harappo are numbered, "Repent! Make the path straight or perish", Her almost neurotic yet grim imagination disaster is blazingly attractive. Each canvas is a tragic drama of what human beings have mode of each other blazingly and nature. She believes that the artist should be committed to humanity and not to parties and systems. In that sense these paintings are mould breaking.