Ramchandra Kharatmal is a winner of the prestigious National Lalit Kala Award, has also received Maharashtra State art Award and various awards on a national level. He has participated in 29 group shows in India and Abroad and in several national and international art exhibitions, and has three successful solo shows to his credit. He has been part of 18 national art camps and has given demonstrations in national-level art collages and art programs. He has received 2 years National Scholarship of PPIF (Poorna Prajna Institute of Fine Art, Mumbai). He is a native of Solapur and presently residing in Pune. While looking at his paintings you realize, the warmth of the quilt elaborates tender illusion… and the intermingling of colors along with the past memories, are the features of his paintings. Rhythmic shapes and figures and splendid interwoven colors, denoting the past are the features of a quilt that entangled our mind with golden memories… Ramchndara beautifully blossoms these quilts in the contemporary form and makes them perpetual on the canvas with the same warmth and memories, when we look at his paintings, they eternally influence us! This beautifully blossoming quilt in the traditionally retained form and yet contemporary is the content of Ramchandra’s paintings