Balancing their exposure to international art with their own traditions, Indian artists have created a new visual language of intensely colorful expressionism"-Quote from Asian Art News, Volume 18, Number 5, September/October 2008 by Uma Prakash.

An Asian American woman artist who has created representational art since childhood, my current foray into abstraction helps me pursue my ongoing journey as a visual artist with an independent means of expressing my ideas. From personal experience thus far, my efforts have succeeded in aiding my audiences in forming their own impressions while relating to my work at the visual level, if not always through the artist statement, then alternately with the help of the colorfulness, variety of textures, hints at figuration and presence of circles referring to the human life cycle, through which I convey my thoughts and emotions. For achieving the visual outcome, I present my thoughts on choice surface materials that are an integral part of my body of work. Some examples are canvas, Plexiglas, paper, anodized aluminum or linen, combined with acrylics and found materials such as oriental papers, gold leaf, sand and fibers to create mixed media. These materials are also incidentally my choice mediums with regard to courses and workshops that I have been teaching-Chitra Ramanathan