Tuesdays With Gene

Jane Christian Roland

 

    Jane is a life-long lover of animals of all shapes, sizes, and species. As published journalist,  Jane has written a weekly column for the Cedar Street Times in Pacific Grove, California, for ten years. Most of these columns have been about the loving, wonderful, and amusing animals in her life and those of her friends and family.  A devoted animal advocate, Jane has worked professionally and/or as a volunteer in animal rescue organizations for over forty years. She lives in Monterey, California, with husband, John, and an assortment of furry friends.

Her children inherited Jane’s love of animals. The youngest, Genevieve (“Jennie”) Roland Smith, is the illustrator of this book.

 

Genevieve Roland Smith

 

   A native Californian, Genevieve was an artist from the time she was old enough to pick up a pencil in her hometown of Monterey. 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 started her own successful decorative painting company, Magpie Painting. In 2010 she moved with her family to Denver, Colorado, where she does freelance decorative painting and also paints in her home studio. Genevieve has shown her work in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles and Denver.