Elaine Clayton Art
Elaine Clayton is a fine artist and children’s book author and illustrator. About Elaine.
Her fine art portfolio includes portraits, murals, studio and landscape painting, and other work. Gallery/fine art
Elaine's most recent illustration project is The Georges and the Jewels, by Jane Smiley. She has illustrated several other books for children, including the Hamlet Chronicles series by Gregory Maguire, and her editorial illustrations have appeared in the New York Times and elsewhere. Illustration portfolio.
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The New York Times Book Review wrote that Elaine's book, Ella’s Trip to the Museum “captures that giddy feeling of pure sensory overload that one sometimes gets when walking into a museum for the very first time.” To learn more about Elaine’s children’s books, visit the book page.



