Henk Serfontein is an award winning South-African artist. His work has received widespread acclaim and he was the winner of numerous art competitions, including the prestigious New Signatures and Kanna Awards. He holds a degree in Fine Art and has lectured on tertiary level. He has also published widely. He regularly contributes articles on art and popular culture to the online publication, Vrye Weekblad.

Henk Serfontein came to prominence with his hyperreal paintings of nightscapes, featuring the marginal, transitory spaces of South Africa. His abstracts explored similar themes and psychological spaces, questioning the space between European tradition and adventurous, unrestrained African aesthetic as he excavates his own identity: not quite African, not quite European. A deep, enduring attachment to the landscape pervades as an intersection of identity, culture and history. 

In Henk Serfontein's charcoal drawings he investigates the fragile, the intimate and the ethereal. In his plant portraits, Fragile Flora, he captures with his microscopic eye, indigenous plants with exposed roots in minute detail. Nature is rendered ethereal and glowing with inner light. These are portraits in the full sense of the word. The sitter is treated with gravitas, dignity and grace, imbued with compassion and curiosity. The work is submerged in the poetry of light and shadow but his vision is acute and goes beyond the photo realistic. It zooms in on the underlying chaos and astonishing beauty. Every mark and every erasure acts as a poetic investigation.

Henk Serfontein holds a degree in Fine Art (cum laude) from the Tshwane University of Technology (1997) and studied at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France (1997-1999). He has lectured art at a tertiary level, adjudicated national art competitions and is an accomplished curator of exhibitions.