Ray Ching b. 1939

Works

Ray Ching
Song of the Huia, 2024
Oils on board
106.7 x 91.4 cm
Ray Ching
The Birds, the Beasts & the Bat p. 62-63, 2017
Oils on canvas
110 x 137 x 4 cm
Ray Ching
In a Forest Together They Danced and Sang, 2021
Oils on panel
97 x 135 cm
Ray Ching
The Huia Painter
Oils on board
85.5 x 90.5 cm
Ray Ching
P.84-85 The Pigeons Who Danced
Oil on board
51 x 61 cm
Ray Ching
P.234-235 The Hawk & the Young Bitterns
Alkyd / Acrylic on board
51 x 61 cm
Ray Ching
Huia at her Nest, 2022
Oils on canvas
65.5 x 54.5 cm
Ray Ching
The Dispute, 2018
Graphite pencil, ink, conté, carbon, oils, liquin
92 x 107 cm
Ray Ching
P.246-247 At Last. The End
Alkyd / Acrylic on board
46 x 61 cm
Ray Ching
Huia in a Forest
Oils on panel
67.5 x 89.5 cm
Ray Ching
P.226-227 The Rats & the Birds on the Shore, 2014
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
61 x 51 cm
Ray Ching
Hospital Ship, 2023
Oil on board
90.5 x 105.5 cm
Ray Ching
P.177 The Falcon & the Fruit Doves , 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 51 x 1.8 cm
Ray Ching
P.52-53 The Flying Foxes & the Roosting Tree
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 cm
Ray Ching
The Ant p. 105, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 51 x 2 cm
Ray Ching
Who's got the Longitude?, 2018
Graphite pencil, ink, conté, carbon, oils, liquin
107 x 107 cm
Ray Ching
Cockatoos with Speech Bubbles I p. 4-5, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
61 x 91 x 2 cm
Ray Ching
King Log p. 186-187, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
61 x 76 x 5 cm
Ray Ching
The Bat's Conduct p. 68-69, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
91 x 110 cm
Ray Ching
The Bird-catcher & the Snake, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
61 x 76 x 53 cm
Ray Ching
The Dingo & the Crocodile p. 130-131, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 cm
Ray Ching
P.225 The Owl hit by an Arrow, 2014
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 x 3 cm
Ray Ching
The Snake & the Wallaby p. 174-175 , 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
61 x 75 cm
Ray Ching
The Two Pots, 2010
Oils on board
91.5 x 107 x 3 cm
Ray Ching
The Lizard & the Fly p. 126 - 127, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 cm
Ray Ching
The Pademelon & the Platypus p. 148-149, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 x 5 cm
Ray Ching
The Racing Pigeons, the Goshawk & the Falcon p. 76 - 77 , 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 x 2 cm
Ray Ching
The River-Dwellers p. 196-197, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 51 cm
Ray Ching
The Lyrebird & the Precious Thing p. 200, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 cm
Ray Ching
The Snake & the Echidna p.188-189, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 51 cm
Ray Ching
Winter & Spring p. 128, 2017
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 51 cm
Ray Ching
Foolish Friends, 2020
Oils on board
90 x 107 cm
Ray Ching
The Goose in a Ruff at Sea, 2020
Oils on board
91 x 76 cm
Ray Ching
The Starlings & Mr. Lear, 2020
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
40.5 x 60.5 cm
Ray Ching
Fable: The Kite and the Huia
Oils on canvas board
51 x 61 cm
Ray Ching
The Sun and the Southerly Wind
Oil on composite board
91.5 x 107 cm
Ray Ching
P.203 The young Man & the Swallow, 2014
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 x 3 cm
Ray Ching
P.204-205 The Astronomer Myna, 2014
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 x 3 cm
Ray Ching
P.208 The Blue-bottle in the Air, 2014
Alkyd/Acrylic on board
51 x 61 x 3 cm
Ray Ching
The Hawk the Falcon & the Pigeons, 2014
Oils on board
91.5 x 107 x 3 cm
Ray Ching
The Leaves in the Wind, 2010
Oils on board
91.5 x 107 x 3 cm
Ray Ching
Goose with a Wooden Leg/Left and Right, 2007
Oils, crayon, permanent marker on panel
90 x 108 x 5 cm
Ray Ching
He’d be alright if they would let him leave his singlet on / The Arrival of the Pipiwharauroa, 2007
Oils on canvas, laid down on panel
70 x 91 x 5 cm
Ray Ching
Paid-back/Daybreak, 2007
Oil on canvas, laid down on panel
108 x 90 x 8 cm
Ray Ching
White Island, 2002
Oil on board
107 x 183 x 3 cm
Ray Ching
Icarus, 2001
Oil on panel
92 x 107 x 3 cm

Biography

Ray Ching in his home

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 was launched at Artis Gallery in October 2024.