Rendered in pencil and acrylic, Trish's colorful and carefully crafted paintings can be described as illustrations in a fantasy/folk style. This unique, highly recognizable style is intuitive and is the natural production of her vivid imagination. Trish works in isolation from artistic trends and established methods, focusing on and believing in her own vision.

Each painting takes from six months to a year to finish and often involves months of preliminary research. Upon completion of a painting Trish supervises each step of its reproduction at an Austin, Texas printing company that uses a state-of-the-art four-color offset printing press. This type of reproduction makes it possible to offer the public a quality, inexpensive "poster print" of the original painting.

Trish's artistic influences include William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Lewis Carroll, John Tenniel, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Arthur Connan Doyle.

Trish claims two hometowns in Texas - Fredericksburg, where she was born, and Vernon where she came to love the spirit and people of North Texas. She holds a Master of Arts degree in Literature from Texas State University, and wrote her thesis on James Joyce's Dubliners. Trish and her husband Mike McCracken reside in beautiful, quaint Georgetown (north of Austin).