Yap Hanzhen is a young artist who has started drawing recently. His interest is in sketching buildings, still life objects and animals. He has an excellent attention to detail, seeing things in his own way. From the way he draws, he appears not to have a preconceived idea how the object would appear in the end.

Hanzhen was born in Malaysia on 15th Sept 1998 of architects parents. As a child, Hanzhen was diagnosed as autistic and had to be intervened vigorously to attempt normal life. He now attends a mainstream private secondary school with age-group peers. 

His interest is also in music where he plays the piano relatively well. He has also weird computation techniques and a huge memory on numbers, particularly calender dates and days.

Living in a creative environment at home and having seen sketches since young, he is very comfortable with pencil sketches, normally preferring the 3Bs and above for his rendition of details. He creates confident lines, drawing exactly what he sees in a quirky manner, usually applying minor shading to distinguish planes, depths and shadows. Since starting drawing seriously in end 2011, he has created a large volume of work, some of which had been succesfully sold and actioned. Publicity and income generated from these were channelled back to non-profit organizations in the hope to create better public awareness in disability such as autism. Hanzhen has todate held 10 exhibitions and is currently commissioned to draw for an international hotel chain.