Helen Evans Ramsaran is widely known for her small scale, bronze sculpture inspired by many years spent traveling throughout Africa, China, Japan and Europe. We are delighted to be able to share with the world two of Helen's large scale relief sculpture from her Visual Tales Series. Sand casted in bronze 43 years ago at The Johnson Atelier in Princeton, New Jersey, A Willow's Secret, 1978 has not been exhibited in over thirty years and was created just four years after Helen arrived in New York City and ten years after she received her M.F.A. in sculpture. The series is inspired by Ramsaran's childhood imagination during her early years in Bryan, Texas.

According to Helen, "For most children, this is the time when play and memories are suffused with vivid color, wild shapes and unusual creatures that inhabit a world usually of their own making. This is also a time in the life of a child for observation, discovery and exploration of the real world. Such was the world that I knew in rural Bryan, Texas of the 1940’s and ‘50’s. Even though I spent only ten years in that small town of Texas, from 1943 to 1953, I held onto those “memories” and later decided to create a group of sculptures about them".

Ramsaran was born in Bryan, Texas in 1943. She moved to Ohio in 1953 and went on to receive a M.F.A. in sculpture in 1968 from Ohio State University. Ramsaran's work has been exhibited nationally and abroad including many solo and two-person exhibitions in Japan at the Atagoyama Gallery; a solo exhibition at the Museum of Natural History in New York City; a solo exhibition at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia that traveled to the Studio Museum in Harlem; and, Listening Sky, the inaugural exhibition 0f 12 works by 12 artists for The Studio Museum in Harlem's sculpture garden in 1995. Ramsaran's work is in the collection of the New Museum in New York and the Sheldon Museum, among others. Her work has been featured in a number of publications including The New York times, The New Yorker, and ArtNews. Ramsaran lives and works in New York City.