About me

Elena Priestley is a Russian born artist. She received all her early formative training at the Fine Art and Industrial Institute, Kharkov, Ukraine; achieving diplomas and degrees in fine art, graphic and industrial design, photography, computer software technology and additionally gained a diploma to teach art at schools.

As may be seen, her artistic background has endowed her with formidable multi-faceted ability in which she is equally at ease carrying out portrait commissions, painting landscapes or still life compositions, or working as an in-house Illustrator for a Russian Publisher of Children`s Books. Her talents do not shy from taking on the full responsibility as Advertising Designer for one of the largest newspapers in Russia.

Please see Elena's website for a selection of portraits by Elena Priestley — children's portraits, family portraits, individual portraits, posthumous portraits, figure drawing, animals.... She has paintings in the UK, USA, Germany