Handmade in Glorieta
Trisha Keefe
“With my assemblage works, I feel as if I am turning something broken or forgotten into something beautiful and useful again — giving it new life." With my paintings, photography, and encaustics, I feel as if I’m revealing secret worlds all around us but not always seen”. — Trisha Keefe
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Recent Work
How It’s Made
The Painting Process In Trisha Keefe's Glorieta studio, every work begins with looking — slowly, patiently, until the hidden reveals itself. Her encaustic process layers molten pigmented wax over photographic imagery, building surfaces that accumulate depth the way a landscape accumulates seasons. Found objects — a fragment of rusted metal, shards of broken glass, ( which she calls ‘wild-caught’ glass), are incorporated not just for their beauty but as carriers of history, their wear and patina part of the visual story. Built into the layers, each piece is imbedded with words of beauty and magic meant to hold a frequency that can be healing to look at.
“Trisha Keefe transforms the overlooked and broken into luminous works of art — turning rusted metals, shattered glass, and weathered wood into objects of unexpected beauty. Based in Glorieta, New Mexico, she works at the…”
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