Chang Fee Ming, a Malaysian Asian Modern & Contemporary artist, was born in 1959. Chang Fee Ming’s works have been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from USD270 to USD84,022, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Chang is one of the most successful and highly regarded contemporary watercolourist in Southeast Asia.

A self-taught artist, Chang Fee Ming began his career in the early 1980s. Since then, he has become a highly regarded artist working with watercolour, with acclaimed works that are being exhibited and collected all over the world.

Chang Fee Ming started his international travels Nepal, India, Indochina in the early 1980s. For over 20 years, his subject has been the people and places of Southeast Asia, portrayed through an extraordinary grasp of texture and light, complemented with his vibrant use of colour and composition, with works heavily inspired by his travels in Asia, from his hometown to the far lands of Tibet.

Chang has gone on to gain many accolades both locally and internationally, and became a Signature Member of the National Watercolour Society (USA) in 1994. He has exhibited widely with solo shows in Bali, Beijing, Jakarta, and Kuala Lumpur, and participated in numerous major exhibitions in Asia and North America. His captivating watercolour paintings of fishing villages and island life in the region have become an artistic trademark.

He repeatedly paints Terengganu because it is his root, the place where he was born and grew up in. It is so embedded in him that he can taste the fishy smell that permeates from the South China Sea. The charming fishing villages, the Malay women gossiping in the market wearing colourful tops with unmatched sarongs that are somehow so suitable with the strong, bright sunlight of the East Coast — these are scenes that he is never tired of.”