"The tapestries of Uta Dirks are pieces of colour art suggesting her sense for aesthetics, sensivity and critical reflection on her personal experience. In a mind-boggling beautyful combination of perls and varying shades of blue, the artist has woven pictures of the earth as they may present only to the eyes of an astronaut. Made of wool, partly embroidered, her tapestries are more than mere textile decoration.
Affectionate admiration, high esteem, and the acclaim of experts is shown to her in different printed media, on the radio and in TV. The "Textile Art International", Hannover, wrote 1987: "Uta Dirks is in every respect up to the objectives of art, i.e. to reveal what is concealed, to perceive movements and vibrations of the present and the future and to transform them into creative work as timeless and expressive documents."
Having dwelled on the fields of activity and the abilities of the artist, I would like to add the following: Here we can see a graphical force that - apart from handycraft - displays by her distribution af light and colour, her compositions and her choreographic use of space exactly those features which have always made tapestry a truly majestic art." Hans Thoma