Chien-Ying Chang
Chien-Ying Chang was born in Wuxi, Jiangsu, China on May 25th, 1913 and is the Painter. At the age of 90, Chien-Ying Chang biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Following the communist takeover of China, Chien-Ying Chang and Cheng-Wu Fei decided to make Britain their home, pursuing various interests for some 50 years. Their exhibitions at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours, the Society of Women Artists, and at numerous private galleries, soon attracted the attention of figures such as the painter Stanley Spencer and Mrs Clement Attlee, wife of the prime minister. Spencer was present at the couple's marriage at a Kensington registry office in 1953. He painted several portraits of Chien-Ying Chang, and was in turn painted by Cheng-Wu Fei. They visited Spencer at Cookham in Berkshire, where Chien-Ying prepared a Chinese meal for him. Spencer came up to London when the couple were about to leave England by boat. Cheng-Wu Fei became ill, and their journey was postponed and eventually cancelled. This was fortuitous as they later learned that the new Chinese regime did not take kindly to the Western ideas brought back by returning artists.
The couple remained in Britain, admiring its landscape and rain reminiscent of China. On expeditions to the Lake District and Devon, Chien-Ying Chang created paintings with a distinctly Chinese mood. She still worked on rice paper, giving her work a delicate quality. They bought a house in Finchley in north London, filling the garden with oriental plants, while Chien-Ying Chang decorated the inside walls with landscape murals.