She comes from a family of artists and grew up painting beside her mother and father. Greta graduated from Bowdoin College in 2005 with a major in Visual Art. After college, she spent some time abroad and then moved to Chicago where she worked as a Montessori teacher and studio assistant to artist Tony Fitzpatrick. In 2011, she received funding through Kickstarter for her "Greta Paints America" project, which allowed her to travel the country and develop her process while painting all fifty states. In the last two years, she has had solo shows in Rockland, Chicago, Park City, and San Francisco. Greta now works with the Farnsworth Art Museum as a teaching artist. She lives in Tenants Harbor, Maine.