Born and based out of Ottawa, Canada, Sarah Tompkins received her BFAH (2013) from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Queen's University. After a string of solo exhibitions of her Veiled and Spectral Flora collections in Toronto, Canada, she has moved her focus to developing her most recent series of out of a live-in studio. She has further been featured in a multitude of group exhibitions, most recently with the By Other Means collective in London, UK, CONTEMPORARY VENICE at Palazzo Ca'Zanardi in Italy, and SKETCH at SAW Gallery in Ottawa. She has recently been interviewed for and featured on the cover of The Artist Catalogue (Brooklyn, NY) and featured in Art Reveal Magazine (Finland). Her work is held in private collections in Montreal, Toronto, New York, and London.

My journey in the world of art started at the National Art College in Sliven, Bulgaria, where I studied Textile. After 3 years of attending a Collage for fashion and design in Vienna I turned back to painting and graduated with praise -summa cum laude. This was followed by studies of Textiles in which I did continue to practice as a designer. At the same time (parallel to the abstract) countless figurative pictures were painted and tapestries, which I had woven, or knotted all by myself. Since 2013, I had completely dedicated my whole work to abstract painting. The theme my images are strongly influenced is the distance from family and friends. In the beginning, there were a series of abstract images my, so-called unwritten letters, which slowly dissolved into geometric shapes.