Born in Kerala at Malappuram district, completed his bachelors in BFA (painting) from Govt. College of fine arts Thrissur, Kerala in 2021 and masters from Sarojini Naidu School of Art and Communication, University of Hyderabad.

Sanal’s works are mostly concerned with landscape, treating it as an active rather than a passive entity, rethinking the memory sites associated with the landscape and at the same time trying to resolve the contradictions of representing them as neutral spaces. His works address social, historical, cultural interactions of body, space, landscape and time during the insights of Kerala’s subaltern history and the notion of “oppressed time” from colonial and Post-colonial studies.