Virginia Maria Romero  is an award winning artist whose works reflect original contemporary designs that express the distinctive voice of their creator.  The style, color and compositions of her acrylics as well as her retablos continue to exhibit her uniqueness and creative quality.  Romero’s works consisting of contemporary religious retablos inspired by the culture of New Mexico and her Polish/Irish heritage are just as strongly driven by her own experiences, setting her works apart from others of that genre.  “Romero has taken an ancient art form and redefined it, reinvented it, and made it her own.” “Virginia Maria Romero’s art speaks a language unlike any other…it is a language of the heart, of the soul, of life...

Romero’s artwork is collectively in: national and international private and museum collections, over 25 books, film, and periodicals, has been featured in over 50 group and solo exhibits; and The New Mexico Office of the State Historian website includes a biographical sketch of Virginia Maria Romero as an important New Mexico Artist.  Romero’s retablos, altars, and crosses are done using carved and/or adzed pine panels, homemade gesso, water-soluble pigment, hand collected ground pigments as available including; ochre, cochineal, black walnut, and sealed with homemade piñon sap varnish, & wax. 

Romero’s artwork has been selected for gifts and collections that include: Basilica of San Albino, Mesilla, NM;  El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM;  New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum, Las Cruces, NM;  San Miguel Mission, Santa Fe, NM;  Maria Stein Heritage Museum/National Marian Shrine of the Holy Relics, Maria Stein, OH;  Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine and Parish, Mesilla Park, NM;  Holy Cross Retreat, Las Cruces, NM;  St. Francis Jerome Church, Center, CO;  The Friars of the Sick Poor of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA;  Santa Francesca Romana, Rome;  Basilica di San Miniato al Monte, Florence,Italy;  Monte Olivito Maggiore;  Cardinal Levada, and Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican City;  and Virgin Galactic.

Virginia "Ginny" Romero is a prolific artist that is constantly creating new images and original master pieces.  Many of her images of both retablos and desert animals have been formatted and reproduced through sublimation/dye  printing to tile.  Each tile image is selected and scrutinized by the artist before being printed and made available for wholesale and purchase. 

For original artwork or studio tours, she may be contacted at (575) 521-7248.