" A impressionistic technique I adopted in order to project the rythm of swirling anatomies. This requires an acute sense of colour and ability to suggest movement through textures of changing grades."

                                        By Dnyaneshwar Nadkarni in Financial Express,                                                                                                               Mumbai

"In the main, she has two approaches, both successful for seizing the vibrant dynamism of dance without freezing the motion.
                 ....one gets an impressionistic yet telling experience of the poetry of motion that is dance."

                                              By Krishna Chaitanya in The Hindustan Times,                                                                                                                   Delhi

"Komala Varadan's art is not a fashionable explanation of cliched figures; it is the creation of a unique, particular moment, an emotion, a movement."
" The challenge consisted of capturing the entrancing quality of aesthetic movement in a plastic representational medium and Komala Varadan, expressed a commitment to that quality of grace to which all dance aspires."

                                                                           By Dinyar Godrej in Front line

" In painting from her earlier attempts at portraiture, she graduated to landscapes and eventually took to exploring the dance theme in which she has achieved a fusion of the performing and visual arts. She seeks to capture the rythm and movement of dance, laying colours with painting knife in an exhuberance to delineate near abstract forms full of movement that permeate the whole canvas.."

                                                                    By P N Mago in India Perspectives

"Easy lies the head that wears the crown. That is if the person wearing the crown is Komala Varadan. ...The term versatile pales before Komala Varadan the dancer, painter, photographer and writer. Many people have multiple interests and talents, but few are able to pursue all of them simultaneously and in a manner as to gain world recognition. She exemplifies the way a classical dancer has to accomplish several tasks simultaneously."

                                                 Anjana Rajan reviwing Komala's exhibition of
                                                                 Photographs organized by IGNCA in
                                                                                                                   Delhi

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