"I still believe I am a teacher first and a painter second."

Ramesh Pandya was born in Surat in 1930 and raised in Chanod village. He was the first student from the Faculty of Fine Arts to be hired as a teaching assistant after completing his studies. He has undoubtedly followed the categories and stylizations created by N.S. Bendre for training, even in the practice of his own painting, as a careful teacher. N.S. Bendre valued his naiveté for immunizing him against the realistic conditioning that comes with studio training, thus he utilized a guileless shape and a new palette of colors. During his travels through America, he was attracted by Joan Miro's art and began painting with watercolors. He's also recognized for every year directing and narrating the puppet show at the Fine Arts Funfair. A role that brought out his theatricality with zeal. A mural depicting Maharana Pratap riding Chetak adorns panel number 46 on the walls of the outer circular hallway on the ground level of Parliament House. He also painted the murals for Ahmedabad's Akshardham temple.

He has displayed in many solo and group shows in Contemporary Art gallery, Ahmedabad, AIFACS, Taj art gallery and others.

In the year 2019, he passed away in Vadodara.