[2] His early work includes Butterflies in Britain (1943), which was drawn directly on the lithographic plates, A Book of Birds (1944), The Old Woman and the Pedlar (1944), The Tailor and the Mouse (1944), Wild Flowers (1944), Heads, Bodies & Legs with Denis Wirth-Miller (1946), and the collection of short stories Mr Postlethwaite's Reindeer (1945).
Chopping's first novel, The Fly (Secker & Warburg, 1965) was recommended to its publisher by Angus Wilson, where David Farrar found it "a perfectly disgusting concoction".
Chopping's life partner was the landscape painter Denis Wirth-Miller (born 27 November 1915, died 27 October 2010).
[4] On 8 April 2010 Swann Galleries auctioned an archive of letters between Chopping, Ian Fleming, and others involved in the production of nine of the 007 covers between 1957 and 1966.
The letters touch on details about the jacket art, praise for Chopping's work, payment information, copyright issues and other related topics.