He has unique style of presenting himself through variety of themes - Sikh religion, history, culture, folk lore, love legends, portraits, social evils, nature, illustration of Gurbani, Shabads, visuals in Punjabi Encyclopedia and books.

He knew many languages i.e. Gurmukhi, Punjabi, Hindi, English, Urdu, Persian, Assamese and Bengali.

[1] He translated articles from Bengali to Punjabi and published these in the book titled Bangla De Daab in 1974.

[1] The Artist was honoured in 1973 by the Chief Minister, Punjab, India Giani Zail Singh at a state level function organised at his residence, Chitralok, Patiala.

The artist always felt that his success in life and art is only due to good training, blessing, motivation of his grandfather.

In 1937, the artist with his family had to shift to Assam to look after his agricultural land as his father was very sick.There he designed an appliance attached to cart for automatic rice plantation which was pulled with a pair of bulls.

In 1938, two paintings -Mahatma Gandhi and Subhas Chandra Bose - were prepared and sent to Congress session at Haripur in Assam.

To meet medical expenses, he started going to military base, prepared pencil sketches, portraits of soldiers, took photographs & developed in box camera fitted on his bicycle.

Dr. Hughes Gordon Robert, Welsh Presbyterian Mission and founder of the hospital thanked the artist for the beautiful gift vide his letter Ref.no 239 dated 29 December 1941.

[1] As a mark of blessings of Almighty, he started study of Guru Nanak's life and preparing it on canvas.

He also visited Delhi on 14 April 1946 and met Congress leaders Pandit Nehru, Asif Ali and others.

During this tenure, he was associated with art work of Rikanjat Secretariat, Punjabi and Archives department, Museum, Darbar Hall (Qilla Mubark).

He is very strong in perspective drawing and making original designs, which in fact is the key of success in Fine Arts.

He designed illustrations of publications, portraits and preparation of four volumes of Mahankosh (Punjabi Encyclopedia) into one book.

Till 1956, Punjabi Mehkma status was temporary one, the artist and Inder Singh Chakarvarti were instrumental in getting Punjabi Mehkma status as permanent from Raja Surendra Singh of Nalagarh State, finance minister, PEPSU.

He was the life member of Indian Academy of Fine Arts, Amritsar and Chandigarh Lalit Kala Akademi.

On 11 December 1990, he got ready in morning as usual and asked his son to take his photograph before leaving for Delhi.

The last day photograph has been fixed on title page of Ph.D research thesis - Art of Trilok Singh.

Then Chief Minister of Punjab Giani Zail Singh had inaugurated his Art Gallery Chitralok, Patiala in year 1973[12] and also named a street as Chitra-Lok Marg after him.

[25] He also prepared illustrations of many books including Guru Gobind Singh Marg, while working with Punjab Language deptt.

[26] These original paintings by Trilok Singh Chitarkar are on display in Chitralok Art Gallery, Patiala.

[citation needed] 1991- On-the- spot competition started in 1991 every year in the month of May for school children of Patiala.

[27] 1992- Art section of 52nd All India Sikh Educational Conference held at Patiala in 1992 was dedicated to late S. Trilok Singh Artist.

On this occasion S. Swarn Singh Boparai , Kirti Chakra Padma Shri , Vice Chancellor , Punjabi University, Patiala and Er.

[27] 2006- A SPIRITUAL GLOW an exhibition of paintings based on the verses of Gurbani by late S. Trilok Singh Artist was held in Museum and Art Gallery, Punjabi University, Patiala.

It was inaugurated by S. Swaran Singh Boparai, Kirti Chakra, Padam Shree (Awardee), vice Chancellor, Punjabi University, Patiala, Punjab.

[27] 10-12-2014- on 100th birthday of the Artist, Jotinder Singh with his wife visited Sri Harmandar Sahib, Amritsar.

[28] 2017- work prepared by the Artist was published by Bihar government in Coffee books in Punjabi and English on 350th.

[29] 2019- Painting exhibition on the verses of Guru Nanak by Trilok Singh Artist was arranged by Punjabi University, Patiala on 550th.

Punjabi University published and released a catalogue in honour of S. Trilok Singh Artist on 13 August 2019 in Senate hall by Vice Chancellor Dr. BS Ghuman.