Through images that resonate with a breezy and inviting nature, Keating strives to create scenes that bring a sense of warmth, beauty and optimism. Her paintings are of places that she has visited ranging from scenic views in foreign lands to living rooms of friends and family. During her travels she fills notebooks with pencil sketches and takes photographs to remind her of the details of places she has been. Open windows and doors so often featured in her work, are thresholds, but not boundaries, inviting you to come with her in the act of continual discovery of what is just beyond the curtain, outside the window or around the corner. While suggesting a world full of possibilities, her goal to express tender feelings about home and nature explains her tendency to return again and again to subjects such as lush landscapes or inviting interiors.

Keating's personal vision of earthly happiness gives her work philosophical depth and tremendous appeal. She makes no attempt to provide provocative social or political commentary with her paintings. Instead, she is guided to create a personal image that is both aesthetically pleasing and stimulating, thus asking the viewer to reconsider the idealistic tradition in art. Her images combined with her consideration of composition and color lead the viewer to see optimism in everyday surroundings. One has sense of being at ease and a feeling of being at home in this world. Keating's work can be found in galleries throughout the US. Her studio is in Massachusetts.