Heidi Salzwedel is a visual artist and an Art and Design teacher. She studied Fine Art at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, the home of the South-African National Arts Festival, and she completed a Masters in Visual Art at Stellenbosch University. She is currently living in Cape Town, after a 6-month period overseas in the Netherlands and Italy at an art residency and to network with other visual artists of the Christian faith. She has participated in numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally and is passionate about connecting artists, teaching on the role of the arts in the church and society, and providing a platform for artists to exhibit in a missional manner. Together with a core group of artists she started an art collective called 40 Stones in the Wall, which aims to exhibit art in non-church spaces. They exhibit annually at the National Arts Festival in South Africa.