Born in 1973, Dinkar Jadhav received a General Diploma in Art in 1994, and an Art Teacher Diploma from the Abhinav Kala Maha Vidyalaya in Pune in 1995. Jadhav works mainly in impasto and his style is heavily influenced by the landscape paintings of J.W. Turner. Nature is Jadhav's primary source of inspiration and the play of light and shade in the natural world is constantly represented in his compositions. In 1995, Dinkar Jadhav was awarded the State Arts Award for Portrait Painting.