Vanessa Le Page

Female, Person

1970 –

36

Who is Vanessa Le Page?

Vanessa Le Page is a Canadian cake artist. Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, she is the daughter of Canadian artist T. Denis Le Page, and Alidë Camilleri-Kohlhaas, journalist, author, and translator. At the age of three, her family moved to Niagara Falls, where she grew up as an only child, just a stone's throw from the Falls, and from all of Clifton Hill's wax museums, and amusement park rides at Maple Leaf Village.

Music and the arts were an integral part of her upbringing, regularly attending the plays, concerts and dance performances her mother critiqued for a living. Not being very physically inclined, arts and crafts were a constant distraction. From 1979 to 1985 she attended the Ray Wickens' School of Drama in St. Catharines, ON.

After her parents' separation in 1985, Vanessa helped her father establish the T. Denis Le Page School of Fine Arts in his home. There he taught small, private art classes. In the fall of 1988 she moved back to Toronto to attend the Ontario College of Art, from which she promptly withdrew by Christmas. In January 1989 she began to work at Dufflet Pastries as a cake 'finisher'. Within six months she was a night supervisor, and also began specialty cake work on the side, for which she was soon winning awards from the Canadian Society of Sugar Artistry. As well, she designed and created window displays for Dufflet's retail outlet. In January 1994 she left Dufflet Pastries to pursue specialty cake-making full-time, under the banner The Cake Lady - Edible Art by Vanessa Le Page.

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Born
Feb 24, 1970

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on July 23, 2013

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