Henk Tomkins (b. 2001) is a painter based in Auckland, New Zealand, whose work fuses gestural abstraction with screen printing to explore the complexity of human emotion.

With a background in dance and choreography, Henk brings a physical, performative quality to his practice – translating movement, instinct, and affect into visceral visual form.

His work traces fleeting emotional states through unfiltered mark-making, capturing moments that are raw, unresolved, and deeply felt. Informed by the weight of contemporary life and its dissonant rhythms, Henk’s paintings resist neat conclusions. Instead, they exist in a suspended space between sensation and image, inviting viewers into a dialogue with vulnerability, grief, and connection.

His latest series, Revelation Paintings, confronts themes such as mortality, fractured intimacy, and the emotional toll of existence, not to depict them, but to let them emerge – unhidden and unresolved – through process and paint.