The more convincing Ching is in the depiction of birds, the less able we will be to resist the idea that we too, may fly with them. And nobody describes birds, feathers, in paint with more conviction than Ching. After decades of painting them, he knows these creatures through and through, and he heightens the impact of their presence by here painting them perfectly true to life, always in their natural size. If it looks as though we can defy gravity, then why not time too, in joining this imaginary company in their flight from some fanciful ark? Carol Sinclair 2007