Devidas Dharmadhikari was born in Pandharpur, Maharashtra in 1972. He pursued hi GD in Art (painting) from the Dalvi’s Art Institute in Kolhapur.

He is working as a freelance artist since last 17 years. He is an artist whose work transcends the boundaries of time and space.

Well known for his horse paintings, Devidas is a figurative artist. Like many other artists, poets and writers, Devidas found his muse in steed. The only thing with real shape and form on his canvas are his subjects; the horses. Everything else is abstract. He often paints two horses in contrasting shades — black and white or brown and white — in his works. These colours compliment and contrast each other, yin to the other’s yang, both incomplete without the other. The running horses in Devidas Dharmadhikari’s paintings are a metaphor to life, people often stay put in one place, tied to chains, unwilling and unable to break free, confusing their restraints for sash.

The artist paints horses, mostly running and galloping, perhaps in open fields. He focuses on the horses’ postures and their muscular strength. The flowing mane and raised hooves portray the movement in the horses, as if the artist has frozen these animals mid-air, to capture the perfect moment.

His paintings have always been far removed from an overriding, postmodern logic. Instead, Devidas uses the idealistic, representative and modernist language of Indian contemporary art. In his paintings he use bold strokes as well as transparent layers to create emotions.

Devidas had displayed his work in India and abroad and with some auction also.