He was a leading member of the Irish art group, the White Stag, along with Kenneth Hall.
Basil Rakoczi also wrote an autobiography that details his life in an imaginative but frank and honest way.
As a result, his painting have a very modernist yet unique style that is only repeated within the group he formed and ran, The White Stag.
He primarily used oil and gouache as a medium but frequently worked with monotype and watercolour and ceramics for tile designs.
More recently, in the summer of 2005, his paintings were featured at the Irish Museum of Modern Art along with other White Stag works in a successful exhibition.