Saroja confesses to being drawn to the color and warmth of the Mediterranean and after travelling and living in many different countries, has settled in Pollensa – Majorca in 1992. Her studio is alive with canvases of chromatic intensity and variety. Although her work is abstract, in her paintings one can perceive, like a distant echo, the landscapes and objects that Saroja synthesizes with the firm and yet subtle stroke of the spatula. She unites intensity of color with a rich range of hues which make her a continuing force – and heiress – of what has come to be called “Escuela Mallorquina”. Her work is on exhibit in Madrid for the first time, after a wide variety of exhibitions in Majorca during the last few years, as well as having shown her work in the countries through which she has travelled, most especially in Holland, her native land. Her work shows the rich palette of this artist, Mediterranean by definition, if not by birth. Miguel Tugores 1998