Louise is a 65 year old grandmother who is exhibiting her paintings for the first time. She always loved art as a child but successive art teachers whittled away her confidence until she discovered online art classes during Covid. Barry Whitehouse at The Artery in Banbury reignited her love of painting, and she hasn't stopped since.

Louise's paintings are mainly inspired by the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside around her Cotswolds village home. She loves showing the way light shines through trees and the warming glow of sunrises and sunsets. She also likes to tell the story behind the painting. Her favourite is called "The Family Tree" and is Number 1 in the online gallery. It shows a beautiful old tree in North Oxfordshire, looking over the steep edge of the Cotswolds and into the fields beyond. It was a gift for a friend who's family have owned the farm on which it grows for generations. They call it "The Family Tree' and marriages, births and happy days are celebrated under it. Loved ones are mourned and remembered and it definitely has a spiritual feel to it. Louise loves paintings that mean something.

The majority of Louise's sales so far have been commissions or gifts. As well as landscapes she has painted a lot of pet portraits, mainly in acrylic but also in pastels, coloured pencil and watercolour. She also paints houses, and gardens but not people she says! Unless they are barely visible in the background.