Indianapolis artist/educator Chitra Ramanathan's current series of predominantly large-scale mixed media paintings portray the mental emotion of happiness as a visual entity through intense colors and alluring textures. They are inspired by short-lived garden blooms and constantly changing seasons in nature, characteristics that attribute to the ephemeral, fleeting and enticingly beautiful happiness' "formless form": a phrase she has coined to describe her concept.

Chitra received her Bachelors degree in Painting with honors and M.B.A from the Unviversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois and teaches painting at the Indianapolis Art Center.