Hayley Elliott-Kernot

Hayley Elliott-Kernot

The common thread that influences all of Hayley Elliott-Kernot’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 creating fantasy worlds as a child, to illustrating children’s books, to her continuing passion for mythology, history, and legends. Portraits are the main subject of her artwork because she is drawn to faces. A person’s face is like the cover of a book, concealing years’ worth of stories intricately entwined to weave the fabric of who they are. In every human there are countless strands — love, hope, pain, fear, friendship — and the face becomes the doorway to the greatest and most complex tale of all.