Gokul Bihari Patnaik (1932-2017) Dharmapada Awardee was born in the village of Olasingh, Khordha, Odisha in 1932. He went to Government School of Art and Crafts, Lucknow and did his specialisation in Commercial Art. He became the superintendent in Odisha Handicraft Training Centre, Bhubaneswar. In his life he has done many art works in wash painting and tempera techniques and died in 2017.