Bhaskaran’s prints aim to transcend cultural and geographic boundaries, a testament of the visual movement of 1960s India when artists pursued more universal subjects and themes. In 1968, R. B. Bhaskaran travelled to Ein Hod, a small artist’s village in Israel on a UNESCO scholarship where he first learned etching and lithography. Continuing his education abroad, Bhaskaran studied printmaking at Portsmouth Polytechnic in England in 1976 as a British Council Scholar.