Vanessa Lively is a musician & painter living in Austin, TX. She began her formal study of fine art at the age of 16 under mentor Vie Dunn-Harr. In 2005, Lively moved to South America to work as a volunteer in Ecuador, where she and her husband Jason worked to setup a cooperatively owned graphic design company. Lively now focuses much of her time on teaching art classes and raising her one year old son Jeremiah, but still continues to paint whenever she can. She painted the front covers of her two latest records "Return to Waves" and "Uncovering Stones".