About the artist

Vanessa Hajje was born and raised in California and she is a woman of the  world, having traveled solo to twenty countries and lived in Lebanon and  Mexico. Her art integrates elements of painting and drawing, and  reflects both her education as a Chinese medicine practitioner and as a  fashion designer. 

Vanessa’s  creative and artistic expression began in  kindergarten at a small alternative school near Santa Barbara,  California.  She was encouraged by her teacher to continue making up  magical stories and illustrating them with sweet, unique, capricious  characters . As a teen she spent long hours painting in her room and  discovered her favorite artist  Gustav Klimt, by whom she is still  influenced to this day.  

Vanessa has three children. When they were younger, she lovingly  attended to them and put her art endeavors to the side until her mid  forties when she met Gabriel Lipper, a successful artist who taught her the foundations of drawing, composition , and oil painting. 

She then went on to complete the Milan Art Institute course, which gave her the  skills and confidence to call herself a professional artist.  Her paintings  are at the crossroads of whimsical, magical and edgy.  Vanessa‘s mixed media art is a rich mixture of styles. Each  piece she  initiates is diverse,  from collage to spray paint. She works with a  liberal hand, expressing her feelings with  color, texture, and her  signature drips.