Genevieve (Jennie) Smith, a native Californian with a hometown of Monterey, was an artist from the time she was old enough to pick up a pencil. After graduating with a BA in Studio Art from UC Santa Barbara, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and began working as a decorative painter. In 2000 she started her own successful company called Magpie Decorative Painting. And, in 2010 she moved, with her husband and two daughters, to Denver, Colorado where she continues to pursue work in free-lance decorative painting, and is exploring her passions in fine art painting and design. She is currently working as a part-time Design Assistant for Mod Space Design.