Jerry Smith lives in East Tennessee and works in an automotive factory. He is a self-taught artist who started out wanting to be a comic book artist when he was 10 years old with paint by number kits and started painting in the late 1990’s. He has been painting ever since. Recently he began to paint the things he see’s in grocery stores and has earned the names “Grocery Store Goya” and the “Cracker Barrel Warhol.”