Biography
Chitra Ramanathan's unique body of purely abstract acrylic and mixed media paintings portray happiness as a visual entity through a curious blend of intense colors and myriad textural materials that, under any light situation glow and provide a feast for the eyes. The artist spent extensive time in Paris with her work being inspired by visits to Monet's Garden in Giverny, France in that the artist portrays happiness to compare with fleeting ephemeral garden blooms and constantly evolving cyclical seasons.
Growing up as an award winning child artist in India, the artist continued her education and establishing her career as a painter in the United States. Her distinguished body of work, many of them large-scale have been acquired in the United States and abroad, and commissioned as site-specific public art by educational institutions and organizations such as the MGM Mirage, Las Vegas. A pair of the artist's signed paintings are displayed permanently in the Bellagio Conservatory at the Bellagio Hotel, Las Vegas since 2004.
An educator who has taught courses and workshops in the Painting medium for more than a decade the artist has been invited to for visual presentations of her body of thematic work by institutions within the United States and abroad at the Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom at the Royal Academy Schools in 2005, with invitations for professional artist residencies completed close to Paris, France in 2010, and at Venice, Italy in 2012.
She teaches classes in various painting mediums at the Vero Beach Museum Art School in Florida, United States.
