Haya Ran was born in Holon, Isreal in 1948. From 1968 to 1973 Ran lived on Kibbutz Sasa. After her stay on the Kibbutz, she took courses on Graphics at The Technion. Ran paints with water colors, using a multilayer method, which creates an illusion of tempera. Ran came up with this technique herself, influenced medieval painters. Ran says that the reds, browns, and golds in most of her works are inspired by the preforming arts: the circus, clowns, dancers, and the fantastic.