Long established as a professional fine artist in the South East Asia region, Kuala Lumpur born Ng Foo Cheong has industriously created exclusive paintings and artworks of outstanding quality and merit.
Over the years, Cheong’s artworks have made an indelible presence in this region, and internationally. Its impact has been advantageous to the development of Modern Asian Art. This achievement has been a benefit to the region’s long established art market, especially among prominent art galleries and art collectors in South East Asia. While so, this point of reference has positioned Cheong in the international arena of who’s who in 20th Century Asian Art. Today, his paintings are displayed in Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Europe, London, New York and the West Indies.
In last five years or so, an exciting development occurred in the artist’s oeuvre. Known for his abstract expressionist style, Cheong has taken this particular key signature towards an extraordinary distinction and stature. His subject is still Asian, only this time, vividly historical and cultural in subject with panache uncontestable. Cheong’s paintings have in an insentience manner, and yet deliberately, brought Asian Art out of the 20th century into the 21st. He has cleverly masterminded a formula for Asian Art to conquer the new century with new artistic ingenuity.
While sophistication and dynamism bath the surface of his canvases, and while craftsmanship is meticulous and ritualistic, one might ask how and what inspired this artist genius to reach this zenith?
Cheong is an ardent world-class traveler. From adventures experienced, he accumulates memoirs of places and faces, of culture and history, of human life, nature and our environment. These encounters are chronicled and transformed into a melodious expression of forms, vibrant colors, ornamentation, motifs, pulsating layers of paints, rhythms, emotions, symbols, myth and legends; a symphony of artistic grandeur; an autobiography of what it is to be truly Asian.
Ng Foo Cheong’s painting are more than conversational pieces over a cup of tea. They bring Asia to your home, art into your living space, mystical beauty before your eyes.
Remarkable. Invaluable.
Angelina Chong
Art Historian and Art Educator
Over the years, Cheong’s artworks have made an indelible presence in this region, and internationally. Its impact has been advantageous to the development of Modern Asian Art. This achievement has been a benefit to the region’s long established art market, especially among prominent art galleries and art collectors in South East Asia. While so, this point of reference has positioned Cheong in the international arena of who’s who in 20th Century Asian Art. Today, his paintings are displayed in Thailand, Japan, Singapore, Europe, London, New York and the West Indies.
In last five years or so, an exciting development occurred in the artist’s oeuvre. Known for his abstract expressionist style, Cheong has taken this particular key signature towards an extraordinary distinction and stature. His subject is still Asian, only this time, vividly historical and cultural in subject with panache uncontestable. Cheong’s paintings have in an insentience manner, and yet deliberately, brought Asian Art out of the 20th century into the 21st. He has cleverly masterminded a formula for Asian Art to conquer the new century with new artistic ingenuity.
While sophistication and dynamism bath the surface of his canvases, and while craftsmanship is meticulous and ritualistic, one might ask how and what inspired this artist genius to reach this zenith?
Cheong is an ardent world-class traveler. From adventures experienced, he accumulates memoirs of places and faces, of culture and history, of human life, nature and our environment. These encounters are chronicled and transformed into a melodious expression of forms, vibrant colors, ornamentation, motifs, pulsating layers of paints, rhythms, emotions, symbols, myth and legends; a symphony of artistic grandeur; an autobiography of what it is to be truly Asian.
Ng Foo Cheong’s painting are more than conversational pieces over a cup of tea. They bring Asia to your home, art into your living space, mystical beauty before your eyes.
Remarkable. Invaluable.
Angelina Chong
Art Historian and Art Educator
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