Born in Scotland, Uma is an artist returned to her roots. An emerging artist who has taken part of a joint exhibition in Tivoli, Italy, Uma is now living and studying in Edinburgh, after obtaining her diploma from an Art secondary school in Rome. She is Inspired by our relationships with each other, our surroundings, and colour. Uma's work revolves around themes of touch and connection. Her work often begins with writing and is subsequently explored and developed through different mediums such as textiles, oil painting and printmaking .
Using creation as a way to explore feelings and memories, my work dances around the themes of body, space and self. My fascination with colours began in Scotland. Enveloped by grey, often I would spend the day watching light get trapped in each rain drop through the car window.
Or as I held my mothers hand, eyes half closed from the cold, walking. Above, the inescapable leaden sky I had come to despise, omnipresent.
To my untrained eye, white enveloped the entire city. I remember the day she began asking me what colours would I use, were I to paint that moment. Suddenly it became an excersize to notice each rare nuance.
Making it my mission to trap each colour, I pushed myself to experiment the way colours, almost like a group of people, interact with one another. Before long, the answer to her question would become a step by step process of every hue involved in reaching the final colour.
Understanding the way colours work, further compelled me to create. My world, my way of seeing things, suddenly had a way
to exist outisde of myself.