Louise Fairchild gained a Fine Art (BA Hons) Degree at Reading University, after a Foundation Year at Sheffield Art College, and worked as an illustrator and artist worldwide for many years.
Commissions in this period include British Airways, Barclays Bank PLC, The Home Office, Fortnum and Mason, Bloomsbury Publishing, Boots the Chemist, Blass Wine Estates, Random House Publishing, Woolwich Building Society and Marks and Spencer PLC.

She also had numerous portrait commissions for the board of di-rectors of companies such as Sainsburys Plc, Fidelity Investments International and Price Waterhouse Coopers, as well as a monthly commissioned portrait of a prominent figure in business or gov-ernment for the CBI magazine. In 2009 she returned to Fine Art full time.

Her work hangs in private collections throughout the UK, the US and Asia.