Ching Fun Tso
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Commissions/Collaborations/Collections/Publications
→ British Gas, UK Head Office, Reading, Corporate
→ ABN AMRO Bank, UK Head office, London, Corporate
→ St. Thomas' Hospital, London, Corporate
→ Cambridge Gate Mansions, Regents Park, London, Residential
→ Whinney Mackay-Lewis Architects, Corporate
→ Galliard Show Homes, London, Corporate
→ Crown Dilmun Developments, London, Residential
→ Amnesty International, London, Publishing
→ Scandinavian Seaways, London, Design
→ Michael Peters Design, London, Design
→ Marilynne Cahn & Co, London, Art Consultants
→ Art Contact, London, Art Consultants
→ Workplace Art Consultancy, London, Art Consultants
→ International Art Consultants, London, Art Consultants
→ Howick Contemporary Art Consultants, London, Art Consultants
→ Harwood Design Associates, Surrey, Corporate
→ Artscape West International Art Consultants, San Francisco, United States
→ Corporate Art Planning, Art Consultants, United States
→ Population Concern Demographic agency, Publishing
→ Fearless Frog Productions, London, Publishing
→ The Observer, Editorial
→ The Sunday Express, Editorial
→ Country Living, Editorial
→ Elle, Editorial
→ Brides, Editorial
→ 19, Editorial
→ Aztec Press, Publishing
→ Giraffe Creative Consultants, Design
→ Helix Set Design, Film & Television
→ Dorling Kindersley, Publishing
→ BBC World Service, Design
→ Art House Consultancy, Art Consultants
→ Peter Bridgewater Designs, Design
→ Twickers World magazine, Publishing
→ The Natural World magazine, Publishing
→ The World of Interiors, Publishing
→ House & Garden, Publishing
→ Celador Productions, London, Corporate
→ Footwork UK, London, Corporate
→ Lambie-Nairn, London, Design
→ Camden Graphics Ltd, London, Publishing
→ Rotary Watches, London, Corporate
→ Knight Whitehill Ltd, London, Corporate
→ Médecins Sans Frontières, in association with Brilliant Blue Sky Ltd, London, Publishing*
→ Bridgeman Images, London, Image Licensing
→ Netflix USA, Los Angeles, United States, Film & Television
→ Private individuals, United Kingdom & Overseas, Private collections.
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Group Exhibitions
→ 1987 Camberwell School of Art degree Show, London SE5
→ 1987 The Design Centre, Degree Show, London SW1
→ 1988 The Blenheim Gallery, Gallery Artists, London W11
→ 1988 Galerie Dagmar, Gallery Artists, London SE21
→ 1988 Angela Carr, Gallery Artists, London SE21
→ 1989 Santa Fe Suite, Three Painters - Itamar, Bolivar & Tso, Caracas, Venezuela
→ 1991 Zella Art Gallery, Gallery Artists, London SW10
→ 1992 Kingsgate Gallery, 'Working Multiples', London NW6
→ 1992 Zella Art Gallery, Gallery Artists, London SW10
→ 1993 Zella Art Gallery, Gallery Artists, London SW10
→ 1994 Zella Art Gallery, Gallery Artists, London SW10
→ 1995 Zella Art Gallery, Gallery Artists, London SW10
→ 1996 Zella Art Gallery, Gallery Artists, London SW10
→ 1997 Zella Art Gallery, Gallery Artists, London SW10
→ 1998 Vital Art 1998, Atlantis Gallery, London E1
→ 1998 Churchfield Associates Ltd, Architects, London SW1
→ 1998 Workplace Art, Gallery Artists, London SE1
→ 1998 Marks & Spencer Head Office, BCAA Show, London W1
→ 1998 Workplace Art, 'Paper & Clay', London SE1
→ 1999 Vitalis, Furniture Designers, London EC1
→ 2000 CGU Commercial General Union Head Office, London EC3
→ 2001 The Camera Club of New York, New York, United States
→ 2002 A & D Gallery, 'Cultural Resolution', Chinese Artists, London W1
→ 2002 The Camera Club, London SE1
→ 2009 to 2019 HSoA Hampstead School of Art, annual Summer Exhibition London NW3
→ 2021 Galería Azur Madrid, ‘Constellations’, Gallery Artists, Madrid, Spain
→ 2021 Tokyo International Art Fair, October 2021, Tokyo, Japan
→ 2022 Westland Place Studios, London N1, Open studios
→ 2022 Food for thoughts: a Charity Exhibition in aid of The Trussell Trust, Mercato Mayfair, London W1
→ 2023 Westland Place Studios, London N1, Open studios
→ 2025 Westland Place Studios, London N1, Open studios
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Born 1965 West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
1983-84 Foundation in Art & Design, Percival Whitley college, Halifax
1984-87 BA Honours degree in Graphic Arts, specialising in Illustration, Camberwell School of Art, London
Ching Fun Tso is a contemporary abstract painter living and working in London. British born and of Chinese - Vietnamese origin, Ching spent her formative years in Hong Kong before returning to the United Kingdom. Graduating from Camberwell School of Art in London with a BA Honours degree in Graphic Arts, specialising in Illustration. Ching subsequently worked as a freelance Illustrator for various editorial publications across the United Kingdom.
Over the years since graduating, Ching felt increasingly attracted to the freedom with which Fine Art/Painting offered and as such produced paintings, exhibiting her work in various galleries whilst also collaborating with art consultants, displaying her work in several corporate and residential settings across the United Kingdom and overseas.
Ching endeavours to create a fusion between observation and intuitive exploration in both her paintings and drawings through colour, composition, mark-making, etc to form her own personal visual language. Inspired by nature, real and imaginary subjects and spaces, the human form and much more, Ching hopes to forge an open dialogue and a shared experience between viewer and artist, experimenting with a range of mediums & surfaces to continually evolve her practice and to develop her work as she seeks unusual colour palettes and the exploration of visual imagery.
“My paintings are an attempt to convey my own personal experience of the world around me. The work is essentially about ‘seeing’ in the broadest sense of the word. In many ways, it is my own way of celebrating and communicating what I consider to be one aspect of life's incredible transitory & sensory experiences.
Many elements come to mind in my painting process and here are but to name just a few...
Colour certainly holds a personal and endless fascination; whether this is fresh, vibrant colour, muted, calming, natural or synthetic. Whether consciously or not, in each painting, my aim would be to strike a balance between the intuitive, the emotional with the logical and the rational. Finding this equilibrium, which I have discovered to be so elusive is possibly the hidden driving force behind further, subsequent paintings.
Within the paintings, I am exploring, amongst several elements, the composition, the visual language, the energy, mark making, opaque & translucent layers as well as surface quality. Simplicity against complexity, divisions of space, lines, edges & overlaps - all these and much more are my overriding interests within painting and image making. It seems that I am often attempting to create some kind of order out of the apparent chaos as I contemplate & grapple with the uncertainties, the decisions and the endless possibilities within my practice.
“My ideas and interests are taken from numerous sources with influences taken from both my western background and eastern cultural heritage. This may be a real or imaginary space or subject, the human form, the natural world and much more; all of which I find to be equally fascinating and just as challenging. As with all painters, I would like to see my work evolve and progress over time through the development of my own personal visual language to a degree whereby I am able to eloquently articulate and express my thoughts and feelings about a particular idea or subject through painting or drawing.”
