Trish Booth was born in Hillsboro, Oregon in 1955, but spent her youth on her family’s wheat and cattle ranch near Highwood, Montana. She obtained a BFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1988 and remained in the Bay Area until re-locating to New Mexico in 2007 to found the Ghost Pony Gallery.
Booth works in a regionalist style with life in the American Southwest dominating her oeuvre. She has exhibited in many venues in the San Francisco Bay Area including the Esteban Sabar Gallery in Oakland. She was included in a recent exhibition at the Booth Western Art Museum titled 21st Century Regionalism: Art of the New West. She participated in the Masterworks of New Mexico, 2008 exhibition, and currently has a painting on display at the US Embassy, Windhoek, Namibia.
Her work has been described as “Representational yet surreal, inhabiting a twilight zone between reality and imagination.” The price for her work ranges from $100.00 to $10,000.00. She lives with her husband, Leonardo Pieterse, also an accomplished artist, in Truchas, New Mexico.
