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Cornner, HaydnBiographyHAYDN CORNNER
Haydn was born in 1961, in a room above his grandmother’s haberdashery shop. As the son of a sailor he led a peripatetic childhood. When he was young Haydn realised that he loved being in his own private world and he had an imaginary friend called Christopher Beaker, they both left school when Haydn was sixteen.
In his twenties Haydn played Buster Keaton at the Edinburgh Festival and joined a travelling comedy show which toured Europe. Cornner painted backdrops and made props: ‘We used to do the levitation trick with false legs and a sheet. We had explosions, strings of sausages and a ten foot policeman called Arthur Sleep.’ In the early eighties Haydn began to concentrate on painting and also began working very successfully as an illustrator.
Haydn Cornner gets his ideas from many sources, from travelling, recent trips to Egypt and India have been particularly inspirational.
His painting ‘The Teeth of St. Keith’ came from reading about how in the middle ages towns would buy relics to attract pilgrims. He says : ‘ I like things to be bright, lively, interesting, neat, preposterous, fine feathered, humorous and slightly long winded. I like the people and animals in my paintings to look like they’re going somewhere, or at least thinking about it.’
Haydn Cornner has illustrated two books ‘My China Journey’ and ‘King Ivan’s Dream’ and has had one man shows with Portal Gallery in 1995,96,97 & 1999, 2001, 2003 his next will be in 2005. Haydn exhibits with Portal at all the major Art Fairs and in group show. In 2004 Haydn exhibited with Portal at the Edinburgh Festival. Solo Exhibition Portal Gallery 2005.