Alok Bal studid Fine Arts at the Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University, Baroda. At the onset of his career one could see that Bal was very much influenced by the British Pop-Artist and their American counterparts, but since then he has found an idiom that is very much his own, Bal's works represent man's innate instinct to dominate nature, for instance man's desire to trim trees to look like lollipops, planting flowering shrubs around fountains.

Bal uses irony and skill to express his fascination and disillusionment with life in a metropolis. The metaphorical usage of serene colors, the flying dainty figures, the scratches, the realistically done attributes are all like motifs stitched together with excellent s...