David Tompkins is a 32 year old abstract artist with no formal training. Using no tools or brushes, only his hands, he creates his own unique style of paintings by using many metallics and fluorescents with a splatter technique. Medium is acrylic on canvas or paper.
Tompkins was born with a heart defect and has undergone four heart surgeries, the first at four years old. He will be undergoing a fifth this year. Although artistic as a young child, he taught himself to paint in the hospital while recovering.
Due to isolation, anger and depression felt because of his health problems, some of his paintings contain darker images expressing these feelings.
He has a small studio in his home in Pennsylvania where he will continue to paint. Davids artwork will be for sale in print and original form in the near future.
