“Santosh Kumar Rautaray is a well-known name in the young artist fraternity in the Indian state of Odisha, situated on the east coast close to the Bay of Bengal, he paints the fusion of rich Indian aesthetics and conceptual imagery of contemporary thoughts, his forms chant the sound of high philosophy and command over drawings, the compositions may be visually crowded, but at the same time it also challenges the onlooker to look in a microscopic angle while enjoying the creation of art of Santosh”.