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Sarah Zaidan was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1981 into a very artistically stimulating family. Her American interior designer mother and Arab architect father encouraged and nurtured her passion for art and storytelling, which manifested itself at the age of two when she discovered Greek mythology and proceeded to draw sequential narratives depicting centaurs and dryads on seven-foot-long sheets of paper. This enthusiasm for visual narrative and folklore did not diminish as Sarah grew older, in fact, it dominated every aspect of her life, leaving no other choice but for her to pursue a career in Sequential Art.

Sarah began her formal training in 1999, when she attended the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah Georgia. She graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Sequential Art in 2003. After a year teaching young Saudi women art history and foundations of drawing at Dar Al-Hekma Private College in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Sarah decided to undertake postgraduate study. She completed a Master's of Arts in Illustration with Commendation from Kingston University in 2006 and displayed the work she produced over the course of the degree at the Menier Gallery in London later that year. In March 2008, Sarah submitted a series of three designs to the Momiji Doll Design Competition and succeeded in becoming one of ten finalists in the contest. Her designs were exhibited at the Leonard Street Gallery in London. At the moment, Sarah is deeply engrossed in a practice-led PhD that allows her to combine her two great loves of visual narrative and myths by creating an interactive visual collage that analyses and deconstructs the superhero genre of comics and will be completed in early 2011. Sarah believes firmly that to understand one's place in the grand scheme of the art world, one must understand what came before them, and this is why her biggest inspiration is history. Artists who embrace stepping outside their initial repertoire of materials and techniques in order to communicate their ideas are her role models, such as Henri Matisse, Louise Bourgeois, Dave McKean, Randolph Caldecott and Alfons Mucha. She is passionate about colour and pattern, and always strives for the highest standards in everything she does.

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