RAYMOND CHOW is an internationally renowned artist from Vancouver, Canada. Over 48 years, University of British Columbia graduate in Art Education & Piano from Toronto Royal Conservatory of music. Gardens, Coastal Scenes, Kids, White Satin Gowns, Race Horses, Grand Pianos, Nudes, Still Life, Florals, Cats, Windows, Doors. His art has reached numerous galleries across Canada, Hawaii and the USA. He produces tiles, metal prints, Giclee Prints on canvas, portraits of women & children. He participates in fundraising for several non-profit groups. He is working on his song of 5 years: Vancouver Totally Yours. He is the designer of ArtDayze, with Peter Daniels.
Throughout his career, Raymond Chow has met many public figureheads and has been commissioned to paint portraitures of them. Some have included Clint Eastwood, Sunny and Cher, and Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia.
Other collector’s of Raymond Chow’s paintings have included Indira Gandhi, Paul Anka, Raymond Burr, Gordon Lightfoot, and David Lam.
Raymond Chow has exhibited with some of the most prominent contemporary artists in the world including AJ Casson, Andrew Wyeth, and many more.
His daughter Lisa won the title of Miss Vancouver Chinatown 1989. Raymond Chow can be considered as a North America Picasso.
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I was born an artist in the back of an east end grocery in Vancouver B.C. My parents were both born in Vancouver and both came from large families; my father from 15, my mother from 10. Both my Chinese grandfathers emigrated from South China, the Toy San area.
To quell the small space, my parents bought me a new small brown upright Mason Riche piano and I started piano lessons age 5. When my grandfathers’ 160 acres of farm in Richmond was sold, my mother designed a house in the Mount Pleasant area and my father and his friend built the house in three months. I still remember the two working on building the roof of that house, where my son and granddaughter live now.
In the summers, I was shipped to stay with my aunts and uncles on the Richmond 160 acres between number One road between Williams and Francis roads. We had fun as children running free between rows and rows of corn sheaves…read more
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Portfolio Raymond Chow: Abstract | Beach|Coast | Beaver Lake | Boat | Children | Computer Circuit Series | Co-op Work | Drawings | Feminine Figure | Golf Series | Green Series | Hawaii | Horses | Lake | Landscape | Lisa Series | Nude | Pets | Piano | Portraits | Red Series | Ryan | Shanghai | Still Life | Surreal Landscape | Teddy | Totem | Vancouver View | Vancouver’s Main Street | Victorian Homes | White Gown Series | YoYo