Pegi Smith was born in Canada to Austrian immigrants. Her creative spirit blossomed early in life. She always knew who she was. She wrote and illustrated a book for her mother when she was seven years old...Her mother kept and cherished it until the day she died. When she was eight she began learning the violin. She studied privately for eight years, playing all the while in the school orchestras, mostly first chair, and with her grandfather, also a violinist. She then went on to play several styles including jazz, rock, rhythm and blues etc. As a teenager she also apprenticed under her father to become a third generation dental technician. She took that one more step and began painting on crowns... up to this day, she still paints custom paintings on crowns. She also made miniature sculptures, on her fingertips, out of the same porcelain used to make crowns. Pegi took a pottery class in high school and one of her first pieces was taken to an art show by her teacher. Pegi began studying Ballet and Jazz when she was twenty. After ten years, she realized she started too late, but still loves dance. She dabbled with paints from time to time but was very intimidated by her father, an artist/ painter...he was a realist and did not understand her paintings....she soon gave it up for sculpting out of clay....She took up painting again in the year 2006 passionately! Pegi now works full time on her paintings and sculptures and music...The creative process permeates her heart and soul, which gives her such passion for life!