About
Trisha Keefe
Glorieta , New Mexico
Trisha Keefe spent the first forty years of her life in the healing arts — and she never really left. What changed was the medium. Now working from her studio in Glorieta, New Mexico, she creates layered mixed-media works that use beauty itself as a healing force. Through encaustic technique, photography, and found materials — rusted metals, broken car glass, worn plywood — she transforms the discarded and forgotten into something luminous, giving each object new life and new purpose. A single theme runs through everything she makes: magic, beauty, and light. Her compositions are deliberately abstract, built to open rather than close — inviting the viewer to step in, find their own story, and linger in a space between the seen and the unseen. Keefe thinks of her work as a bridge: between the world of everyday reality and the world of elementals, between what the eye registers and what the spirit senses. That bridge is constructed with care. Her encaustic surfaces accumulate depth layer by layer — wax, pigment, and photographic imagery pressed together until something new and alive emerges. She is drawn to what most people walk past: the face hidden in foliage, the lifeform at the edge of a leaf, the scene concealed within the grain of weathered wood. Revealing these hidden worlds is both her artistic impulse and her continuing practice of healing — for herself, and for those who encounter her work. Prayer and intention are not metaphors in her studio. They are materials, as real as wax or pigment, worked into each piece from the first mark to the last. Trisha is a featured stop on the Pecos Studio Tour, welcoming visitors to her home studio at 13B Cur Trail, Glorieta, NM — where the high desert light, and everything hidden within it, becomes her collaborator.
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 intersection of encaustic art, photography, recycled material sculpture, and painting. Guided by a deep attunement to the hidden life within natural forms. Her pieces carry light-filled intention as much as pigment and wax, making each work both a visual experience and a quiet invitation to see the world differently.