Henk Hofstra - Large and powerful expressionist oil on cardboard - signed

• Henk Hofstra (Terwispel, 1952) is a Dutch painter, sculptor, and graphic designer. He works in Friesland.

To live
At the age of 17, Henk Hofstra attended the Artibus art academy in Utrecht for a year. A few years later, he moved on to the Minerva Academy in Groningen, where he graduated in the late 1970s. His work has been exhibited regularly at home and abroad since the 1980s, including in Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Antwerp, and New York.

In 2007, the municipal council of his hometown of Drachten commissioned him to improve the streetscape. He had a street, where the Drachtstervaart canal used to run, painted blue and named the project "Water is Life."
For Wilhelminaplein in Leeuwarden, he designed eighteen large painted fried eggs with a few plastic hemispheres as yolks. The idea behind it was that the egg had been laid: after much political wrangling over an additional budget of €8.5 million, the financing was secured. The temporary art project was realized in 2008. It drew considerable criticism: regarding the amount of the €100,000 involved, the funding (the project was the alderman for culture's own initiative), the execution (market vendors were hindered by excessive sunlight), and its durability (wear and tear from the weekly cleaning of the market square quickly set in, and the artwork was vandalized). The artwork was repaired after it had been deliberately vandalized. The plan was to leave the painting until the renovation began in January. Ultimately, the hemispheres of the temporary artwork were removed in December.
In 2010 he realised the project "Above Water" in Lelystad