Charles Cham's studio in Melaka, walls covered with painted mask-like faces
Charles Cham The Orangutan House · Melaka

I believe that drawing is thinking and painting is feeling. Therefore, I draw what I think and paint what I feel.

Works

CHAKRA IN BLUE, oil on canvas, 2023

CHAKRA IN BLUE

No. 2974 · 122 × 122 cm · 2023

COME TOGETHER, oil on canvas, 2026

COME TOGETHER

No. 3162 · 122.5 × 122.5 cm · 2026

BLACK ON WHITE ON BLACK, oil on canvas, 2021

BLACK ON WHITE ON BLACK

No. 2810 · 130 × 97 cm · 2021

ASTRAL TRAVEL, oil on canvas, 2022

ASTRAL TRAVEL

No. 2842 · 152.5 × 122 cm · 2022

YIN-YANG-CROSS, oil on canvas, 2024

YIN-YANG-CROSS

No. 3018 · 150 × 150 cm · 2024

THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE, oil on canvas, 2021

THE POWER OF THE PEOPLE

No. 2828 · 152 × 152 cm · 2021

#3164 THE MYSTERY COUPLE.  Oil on canvas, 2026, 152.5x152.5cm.

THE MYSTERY COUPLE

No. 3164 · 152.5 × 152.5 cm · 2026

CITY LIFE, oil on canvas, 2000

CITY LIFE

No. 1058 · 120 × 120 cm · 2000

MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES, oil on canvas, 2021

MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES

No. 2796 · 203.3 × 152 cm · 2021

GOODBYE MINISTERS GOODBYE, oil on canvas, 2021

GOODBYE MINISTERS GOODBYE

No. 2805 · 152 × 152 cm · 2021

AGONY AND ECSTASY, oil on canvas, 2021

AGONY AND ECSTASY

No. 2816 · 150 × 149 cm · 2021

COUPLE OF CRAZY CHAKRAS II, oil on canvas, 2021

COUPLE OF CRAZY CHAKRAS II

No. 2829 · 130 × 97 cm · 2021

YOUR WORLD AND MY WORLD, oil on canvas, 2021

YOUR WORLD AND MY WORLD

No. 2830 · 150 × 150 cm · 2021

A WORLD DIVIDED BY COLOUR, oil on canvas, 2023

A WORLD DIVIDED BY COLOUR

No. 3000 · 150 × 150 cm · 2023

GARDEN OF EDEN, oil on canvas, 2025

GARDEN OF EDEN

No. 3090 · 150 × 150 cm · 2025

SOUL MATES, oil on canvas, 2024

SOUL MATES

No. 3031 · 152 × 152 cm · 2024

TIME BEFORE TIME, oil on canvas, 1998

TIME BEFORE TIME

No. 0819 · 150 × 150 cm · 1998

DANCING SPIRITS, oil on canvas, 2002

DANCING SPIRITS

No. 1188 · 130 × 97 cm · 2002

ARTIST PROFILE, oil on canvas, 2025

ARTIST PROFILE

No. 3160 · 150 × 150 cm · 2025

BLUE MAGIC, oil on canvas, 2025

BLUE MAGIC

No. 3100 · 150 × 150 cm · 2025

Portrait of Charles Cham in his Melaka studio

About

CHARLES CHAM started painting at the age of five inspired by the first movie he ever saw. It was a story about an artist with a magic brush and everything he painted became alive. He painted birds and they flew away. He painted fish and they swam away in the river. Finally he painted a woman, she became alive and they fell in love. When Charles came home that day after the movie, he started to draw a portrait of the painter on the floor with some cake powder belonging to his mother. That was his first portrait.

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