“What it takes to remain tender in a world that hardens you.”
Angel Yau is a Canadian artist based in British Columbia whose work explores emotional interiority and the quiet psychological landscapes of adulthood. Working primarily in acrylic, her paintings combine expressive mark-making with subtle blending to create contemplative environments that hover between memories and imagination.
Yau began painting at a young age and maintained a continuous artistic practice alongside a professional career in the financial industry. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Simon Fraser University and spent nearly two decades working within structured, performance-driven environments. Post-pandemic, she made a deliberate transition to pursue art full-time, reframing her earlier career not as a departure from art, but as part of the life experience that informs her work today.
She is currently completing a Certificate in Illustration at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Her practice is shaped by an interest in psychological inquiry, symbolic imagery, and the relationship between inner life and external structure.
The Practice of Tenderness marks her first cohesive exhibition body of work. Through her paintings, Yau seeks to create spaces where viewers can pause, reflect, and reconnect with aspects of themselves that remain quietly alive beneath the weight of lived experience.
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