Raymond Ching

Works

Raymond Ching
A White Faced Heron, Matuku-moana, 1986
Watercolour
28 x 40 cm
New Zealand Birds: An Artist's Field Studies, p.73 Reed Methuen, published 1986
Signed upper right
Raymond Ching
Study 1, The Broad & Narrow Ways, 1989
Graphite on paper
55 x 74 cm
Signed- R Harris-Ching. Dated 11.4.89
Raymond Ching
A Young Man 1995
Oil on panel
39.5 x 27 cm
Signed
Raymond Ching
K.W. 1994-96
Oil on canvas
65.5 x 53 cm
Signed
Raymond Ching
Kiri Te Kanawa
Watercolour on paper
27 x 24 cm
Signed lower left
Raymond Ching
Vanessa
Watercolour
65 x 54 cm
Inscribed Rye, 1978 lower left
Illustrated: The Art of Raymond Ching Paintings and Drawings 1972-1979 Peter Hansard Page 160
Signed upper left
Raymond Ching
Takahe Notomis Mantelli, 1981
Pencil on paper
53.3 x 36.8 cm
Illustrated: p. 199 Studies and Sketches of a Bird Painter, Paintings, Drawings and text by Raymond Ching, Errol Fuller, Landsdowne Editions, 1981
Raymond Ching
Back Study
Graphite on Tracing Paper
53 x 37 cm
Signed lower right: Raymond Ching
Raymond Ching
Nude 1979 Reclining
Graphite on paper
29 x 70 cm
Illustrated: Peter Hansard. The Art of Raymond Ching p. 191
Signed lower right 'Raymond Ching'
Raymond Ching
Nude, 1979
Graphite on paper
34 x 59.5 cm
Inscribed 328
Illustrated: Peter Hansard. The Art of Raymond Ching p. 188
Signed upper left: Raymond Ching
Raymond Ching
Portrait with Arms Folded
Graphite on paper
39 x 30 cm
Signed lower right: Raymond Ching
Raymond Ching
Ruby Tuesday
Graphite on arches paper
55 x 71 cm
Signed lower right: Ray Ching
Raymond Ching
Study for Broad & Narrow Ways
Graphite on paper
27 x 66 cm
Signed lower left & upper right

Biography

From studios in both New Zealand and the west country of England, Ray Ching has painted the people and the birds around him and with his engaging magic realism, for more than six decades. He is represented in New Zealand with work in The Suter Te Aratoi o Whakatū, The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and Dunedin Public Art Gallery.

Books documenting his paintings include: The Readers Digest Book of British Birds, 1969, The Bird Paintings, 1978, Studies & sketches of a Bird Painter, 1981, The Art of Raymond Ching, 1981, Wild Portraits, 1988, Ray Harris Ching, Journey of an Artist, 1990, Voice from the Wilderness, 1994, Aesop`s Kiwi Fables, 2012, Dawn Chorus, 2014, Aesop’s Outback Fables, 2018 & the limited edition Fabled Lands 2021, and now in 2024, Ching’s sixteenth book illustrated with his own paintings, The Huia & our Tears, a 279 page hardcover to be launched at Artis Gallery in Parnell on October 22^nd 2024.

Publications