He grew up in Koper, where he began his education at the Secondary School of Design in Ljubljana in 1977. While serving in the military (1981/1982), he wrote a novel titled *Avtoportret*, which remained in manuscript. In 1982, he was accepted to the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana, where he studied painting with Štefan Planinec and Janez Bernik. He graduated in 1986, having completed his theoretical defense in painting and graphic design. After graduating, he moved to Ljubljana, where he completed his postgraduate studies in painting with Metka Krašovec in 1993. In 1999, he spent two months in an artist residency in Paris. Today, he lives and works as a freelance artist.

Kobal understands art as a medium of Truth, together with science and religion or philosophy. He expresses his environment and time through various artistic approaches, and unlike modernist painters, he incorporates narrative, symbolism and spirituality into his work, while remaining faithful to the two-dimensional pictorial field. His creativity often includes completed series of paintings in different styles and with original technological processes. He is inspired by musical creators such as J. S. Bach, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Brian Eno, David Sylvian, Talking Heads, Chemical Brothers and The Earth, and artists such as Rembrandt van Rijn, Ivan Grohar, Pablo Picasso, Marcel Duchamp and Edward Hopper. His works often feature landscapes, architecture, portraits and historical quotes. He pays special attention to remote spaces, whether in nature or in an urban environment, and to Renaissance elements, which he experiences as a lost paradise.

In 2009, he published a work of fiction entitled *Voice* (COBISS) with Cankar Publishing.

He plays the transverse flute as a self-taught musician. Between 2003 and 2007, he collaborated with the group The Stroj as a musician and researcher of instruments made from waste materials. In collaboration with Primož Oberžan, the project *Kako zveni Šiška* was created, in which they transformed a tank wagon into a musical instrument, which is perhaps the heaviest in the world.

As a graphic designer, he designed a CD for the group The Stroj and created several integrated graphic images with various collaborators (CGP Mak Design, CGP Zavarovalnica Adriatic, CGP TV3, CGP Občina Piran, CGP Univerza na Primorskem, CGP Knjižnica Otona Župančiča).