After graduating, Boston travelled to Japan and South East Asia, where he spent time developing his Zen practice which informs much of his later work.
Taking inspiration from Cubist and Abstract art, Boston has explored the nature of paradox in his paintings and drawings and has shown an interest in the interchangeability of form and space.
Taking from his involvement with Zen practice, Boston is interested in creating a sense of the meditation experience for the viewer through his work, something he calls a contemplative presence, showing a careful consideration for tone and a refinement towards the fabrication of forms, whereby his shapes come to mean different things to different people.
Boston has shown extensively across Australia as well as internationally, participating in Group Show at the David McKee Gallery and A Survey of International Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as Contemporary Australian Art to China 1988–1989 which toured from Beijing to Guangzhou.
[1] Boston has won several awards throughout his career, including the National Works on Paper Award, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery in 2004, the John McCaughey Memorial Art Prize, National Gallery of Victoria in 1991, and the inaugural Savage Drawing Prize, Melbourne in 1987.