Swans in the garden

This is a collector's piece that beauty and joy — two Canada geese rise through cascading blooms of dusty rose and blush peony, their forms layered beneath translucent encaustic wax until the boundary between bird and flower dissolves entirely. Trisha Keefe's signature mixed-media encaustic process creates a surface alive with depth: photographic imagery pressed and fused beneath luminous wax layers, building a visual world that rewards long looking and only reveals more with time. This is an original, one-of-a-kind work carrying real artistic and collectible weight. The soft, dreamlike palette of mist, mauve, and antique ivory speaks to collectors drawn to works that feel both timeless and emotionally immediate. Keefe's encaustic surfaces are irreproducible; no two works emerge from her layering process identically, making every piece a singular object. Add to that her growing recognition through the Pecos Studio Tour and her deeply intentional studio practice, and this work represents an artist whose voice is unmistakably her own. The floral abundance surrounding these birds pulses with quiet vitality — petunias, roses, and tropical fronds coexisting in a space that feels neither fully earthly nor entirely imagined. For the collector who values art that carries meaning as well as beauty, this piece delivers both, sealed in wax and intention.