Late Pang Ling

Summary

He was a member of Sarawak Artists Society. A great devotee to Arts in his young days. His work included watercolour, oil painting, copper sculptures and Chinese Art. He studied in the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore in 1969. He started to make his achievement in batik paintings and set up his Sarawak Batik Artshop at Temple Street Kuching since 1976.

From 1962-1977, he was an Art Teacher in Chung Ling Secondary School and Kuching Middle School No. 3 respectively. He was invited by Sarawak Art Club to take part in an exhibition for the visit of Queen Elizabeth The Second, HRH, the Duke of Edinburgh and Princess Anne in 1972.

His batik paintings which composed of the Sarawak longhouses people life and the beauty of the Sarawak Orchids have attracted many tourist from all over the world, especially from America, England, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Australia and Denmark.

In Kuching, he held several one-man Batik Art Exhibitions. His works also went on display in New York's Art Gallery. With the help of Mr Gerald A. Candler, he held his art exhibition for the first time overseas in New Jersey in 1975. As a dedicated artist, he aimed high and expected every piece of his work to be better than the previous. His talent led him to the way of success.