Cornet studied textiles at Goldsmiths’ College, was the founder of Dyson Art Studios, worked as project assistant to the artist Mona Hatoum and was involved in many exhibitions and residencies in Britain and on the continent. She was the daughter of the embroiderer Annie Freud, herself the daughter of the painters Kitty Garman and Lucian Freud, May thus being the great-granddaughter of the sculptor Jacob Epstein. She participated in Kitty Garman and Co at New Art Gallery Walsall in 2003–4, for which she created many new works, for which she sought “the inherent qualities of a landscape. I want them to have the famliarity of a vision from a dream, something we have experienced but is not tangible. That’s why I work with small, dot-like forms: they have the ability to suggest anything – humidity, pollen, holes, swarms of insects, a crowd.