Hayley Elliott-Kernot

Hayley Elliott-Kernot

The common thread that influences Hayley’s creative work is ‘stories’. Reading, telling and re-telling tales has always been an integral part of her life, from her love of reading and making up fantasy worlds when she was young, to illustrating children’s books, to her continuing passion for mythology, history and legends. Portraits are the main subject for Hayley’s artwork because she is drawn to faces. A person’s face is like the cover of a book, concealing years’ worth of stories all intricately entwined to weave the fabric of who they are. In every human there are countless strands, love, hope, pain, fear, friendship, and a face is the doorway for the greatest and most complex tale of all.