Original Kolhapur Water Colour Painting with Mount - Kolhapur, Maharashtra. Artist: Dinkar V Wadangekar. The Kolhapur school of Art is a flourishing centre of Art promoting a distinctive style of water colour paintings. Kolhapur located in the south of Maharashtra has had a tradition in arts and crafts and has thus produced artists of great calibre. The salient features of art in Kolhapur are realism and giving utmost importance to expression and freedom in painting. Even in the domain of nature paintings, all the artists from Kolhapur have their own individual styles. There is a strong British influence in terms of the accent on nature and art .This worked as an advantage for the artists in Kolhapur who gained great artistry in nature and environmental paintings and portraits. About Artist featured here: Paintings by Dinkar V Wadangekar, Kolhapur The artist is a renowned painter honoured a s a veteran artist by the All India Fine Arts & Crafts Society for his contribution in the field of art. He spent 20 years teaching at the Sir JJ School of Art, Mumbai and retired in 1990.