Panchal was born in Mesar, Gujrat and studied at the Sir J.J School of Art in Bombay. He received a scholarship from the British Council to study at the Byan Shaw School of Art in London, and has since resided there. He has been the artist-in-residence at the British Museum, the Harris Museum in Preston and the Windsor and Newton Art facility in London and also co-curated 'Midnight's Family: 70 years of Indian Artists in Britain,' a virtual exhibition at the Ben Uri Gallery & Museum in August 2020. He has exhibited widely since the late 1980s, and he is renowned for his watercolour paintings, as seen in the present lot. He has been the recipient of the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, and his works are included in the collection of the Arts Council of England and the British Museum. He is also an Honorary member of the Royal Society of British Artists.