h a y l e y e m a r t i n art @gmail.com
Hayley E Martin is a North Carolina based artist that has always been enchanted by storytelling. After receiving her BFA from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, her work went on to earn Best in Show and Juror's Choice awards for its emphasis on psychology and the finality of human choices. Her Christian faith plays a large role in the subjects of her paintings as she attempts to capture the imperfection in portraitures as beautiful—each stroke purposeful and unique. To mimic this unattainable and divine design, Hayley chooses to use mediums that are more unforgiving and difficult to manipulate into a “perfect” image, like charcoals and oil/soft pastels.
artist statement
If the face is the canvas then our choices are the mediums. Deep thinkers have engraved valleys between their eyes. Nutrient deficiencies disrupt hair growth. Lack of attention produces accidental cuts, bruises, or burns. Our body expels the minute and often unforeseen choices we make daily while plastering them on the canvas of our face like topography. She is fascinated by the walking gallery we all take part in without intention day after day.
Exhibition CV
2024 Franklin Square Gallery - “BAC Fall Art Show” in Southport, NC
2nd Place - 2D (Issued by William H. Miller)
1st Place (Art League of Leland Award)
2024 Hayloft Gallery/Floyd Center for the Arts - “Earth First” in Floyd, VA
2024 VMRC - “Juried Art Exhibition” in Harrisonburg, VA
2024 Wilmington Art Association - “42nd Annual Juried Spring Art Show” in Wilmington, NC
Honorable Mention (Issued by JJ Jiang)
2022 Truist Gallery - “National Multi-Media Juried Art Show” in Wilson, NC
2022 Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art - “40th Annual Juried Competition, A Sense of Place” in Augusta, GA
2022 Las Laguna Art Gallery - “Women in Art”
2022 Gallerium - “Children”
2022 Artistonish July 2022 Magazine
2022 Artistonish June 2022 Magazine
2022 Exhibizone - “Diversia - June”
2016 Cress Gallery - “Juried Student Exhibition” in Chattanooga, TN
2015 Cress Gallery - “Juried Student Exhibition” in Chattanooga, TN
Best in Show (Issued by Joshua Bienko)
Juror’s Choice (Issued by Joshua Bienko)
2015 Gallery 1010 - “Sculpture Club Exchange” in Knoxville, TN
2015 The Apothecary Gallery - “Common Sense” in Chattanooga, TN
2014 Cress Gallery - “Juried Student Exhibition” in Chattanooga, TN
2013 Cress Gallery - “Juried Student Exhibition” in Chattanooga, TN
2013 Chattanooga Aquarium - “Tennessee River Rescue Sculpture Contest”
Runner Up (Issued by Frances McDonald and Christine Bock)