Gena grew up in rural New Brunswick and has a background in graphic design and photography.
She attended a few open studio pottery sessions in a small, friendly studio while living in Halifax, NS and fell in love with the craft of pottery. She went on to graduate from the ceramics program at the New Brunswick College of Craft and Design in 2014.
Gena has worked at production studios across the country and currently lives in Summerside, PEI.
Her own work is whimsical and usually informed by wherever she is living at the time. This often takes the form of painting local flora and fauna on porcelain clay and carving textile-inspired motifs on stoneware.