While Raymond Fung established a highly successful career in Hong Kong as a noted architect, he simultaneously pursued an avid and enduring interest in art, completing courses in ink painting at the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. Fung draws on his training in architecture to portray landscapes in ink and color that are instilled with a distinct spatial sensibility. His disciplined compositions, which are carefully attuned to the interplay of space, focus on the delicate balance between solid and void in two-dimensional media. Instead of relying on the linear brushwork upheld by traditional Chinese ink painting, Fung creates his landscapes through primarily ink wash, with mountains and hills represented as individual or overlapping planes in different ink tones. His recent paintings take as their subject the overlooked, natural landscape of Hong Kong, one that has been overshadowed by the city's crowd of metropolitan architecture. Fung adopts a gentle color palette inspired by Song-dynasty (960–1279) ceramics for his landscapes, adding a romantic, atmospheric tint to these pristine views of nature untainted by the destructive forces of urbanization.

Fung, who received his degree in architecture from Louisiana State University, now pursues painting full time. Solo exhibitions of his work have been mounted at the Plum Blossoms Gallery, Hong Kong; Cloitre Saint Louis, Avignon; Sinitude Gallery, Beijing; Galerie Yvan Roubin, Paris; and Hong Kong Museum of Art; among other venues. He has also participated in group exhibitions held at the Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen; Hong Kong Museum of Art; Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, Taipei; National Art Museum of China; Fukuoka Art Museum; Chinese Museum, Melbourne; and many others. Fung's work is included in the collections of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; National Art Museum of China; Shanghai Art Museum; Hong Kong Museum of Art; University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong University; and Hong Kong Heritage Museum. He lives and works in Hong Kong.

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