Boodhoo’s paintings often referred to the landscape of Central Trinidad, which he had deftly codified into a distinctive range of painterly gestures, colours and compositional devices. The artist had experimented with abstraction in his earlier works. However, he rarely drifted far from figuration or from the landscape and never toward conventional realism.
He influenced and inspired a range of artists, from Ken Crichlow to Shastri Maharaj and others whose works may not reveal this as directly. The influence of American painters such as Deibenkorn, as well as Post Impressionists like Bonnard has often been discussed in the context of his work.
Boodhoo's first exhibition at the National Gallery in Port of Spain in 1970 was a strong social and political comment in the light of Trinidad and Tobago’s own revolutionary turmoil. Following this exhibition, Boodhoo rarely exhibited. His 1982 interpretation of themes from poems by Derek Walcott and his “Caroni” series in 1992 were of note.
The artist received a Trinidad Government Department Scholarship in 1958 to study fine art at the Brighton College of Art, England. By the time he returned to Trinidad in 1964, he was painting in the typical non-objective style of Europe of the period. In 1968 he also studied at Central Washington University in the United States.
