Self-taught artist Fung Yow Chork is noted for his plein air paintings of fishing villages, river scenes and rural life mainly in the Klang Valley and Malacca. During his free time, he would go on painting excursions, usually with a few friends like Wong Jong Nong and Peter Liew, and here, he captured a treacherous section then on the road up to Genting Highlands. He was a co-founding member of the Thursday Art Group and the Selangor Art Society (1954), and switched to oils on the advice of Zhong Baimu who was teaching at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Art in Singapore. He migrated from Guangdong, China, to Singapore in 1933 and moved to Kuala Lumpur. He worked as a salesman, a shop assistant, and a typesetter for a Chiense newspaper before retiring in 1977. He held his first solo at the Chin Woo Gallery in Kuala Lumpur in 1981, the Australian High Commission in 1982, the Rupa Gallery, KL in 1983, and The Art Gallery, Penang, in 1998. He won 2nd Prize in the Merdeka Independence Trade Fair art and photography exhibition.