From the early terracotta heads to the monumental fibreglass sculptures, Ravinder Reddy’s gaze has shifted from a quiet, pensive viewing to a powerful confrontation with the female form. His heads and figures take you by surprise,not merely for the exaggeration of form but for the defiance in language and directness of communication. His source of inspiration is not in the clichéd, conventional notions of beauty in a woman, but in the strength and vitality she represents.

" I know now that he who hopes to be universal in his art must plant in his own soil. Great art is like a tree which grows in a particular place and has a trunk, leaves, blossoms, boughs, fruit and roots of its own. The more native art is, the more it belongs to the entire world, because taste is rooted in nature. When art is true it is true, it is one with nature".

This is the secret of primitive art and also of the art of the masters – Michelangelo, Cezanne, Seurat and Renoir. The secret of my best work is that it is Mexican.