R.K. Sharma, as is commonly known, is a national and also international award winner artist born in the art land “Kishangarh” of district Ajmer(Rajasthan) on 30th September, 1952. His foray into painting started at young age of 13-14 years. The scenic beauty of Kishangarh also added to his inspiration.He has created enorms collection of paintings of different styles and of different moods from himself and with his team. He has also expertise in creating portraits from actual photograph and live. His portrait collection includes Birla family, Singhania’s, binani’s and steel king L.N.Mittal.

Indian miniature painting belongs to the Classical Art of India. R.K. Sharma’s traditional miniature paintings in contemporary format deserve special attention. The rich Heritage, natural surroundings and art of Kishangarh have fascinated  him to paint to a very early age. This self-taught artist is strongly influenced by the beauty of Bani-Thani paintings of Kishangarh. Initially he reproduce the  master paintings  of various schools of miniature paintings and gradually developed his own school, which has made him popular in to-day’s art world.                   
 
He has experimented with various medium and surfaces sometimes on paper, sometimes on silver or on marble. He has also studded precious stones in his works.
Being a traditional artist he has always tried to follow the traditional techniques and methods: specially his use of vegetable dyes and stone colours have an extra luster to his work. The best part of Sharma’s life which needs to be mentioned is that, he is a science student and passed M.Sc. in 1973. He was holding a good job : but his urge and passion for art has compelled him to leave the job and full time painter.