Beijing-born Che Chenglin love for art was nurtured by her mother from a young age, she learnt figure painting under Xu Yansun. In 1944, she enrolled in the Fu Jen Catholic University, Beiping, Taiwan and studied under ink masters including Pu Xi, Pu Jin, Qi Gong, Wang Rong. She stayed in Taiwan from 1948 to research and practice, teaching briefly at the Taipei Chinese Culture Institute 台北中国文化学院before embarking on several solo exhibitions from 1963-65 in Hongkong, Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. She returned to Singapore and held her solo exhibition co-organised by Society of Chinese Artists in 1980 and exhibited at NAFA a decade later in 1990. She returned between 1995-1997 and held masterclasses for NAFA’s Chinese Painting Department. Che returned to her hometown in 2000 and is based in Beijing since.
Che is a female Chinese ink painter, well known for her vigour and use of colour in her calligraphy and paintings, landscapes, birds and flowers. Well versed in literature, Tang poems and Song Ci, these excellent quatrains often quoted in her works and a source of her creative inspiration.
Red Plum and Peony are examples of Che’s work, resplendent and rich, yet disciplined and scholarly.
