Louise Fox was born in St Albans. She began painting at the Digswell Studios in Hertfordshire, where she was a Digswell Fellow. Since 1999 she has lived and worked in Cornwall. She studied for her MA in 20th Century Art & Design History at Falmouth College of Art. Together with Marilyn MIDDLEMISS she conceived the Salt Gallery, which was subsequently launched as an online gallery in the summer of 2013. A successful painter of the seaside, she describes her more recent work as 'less illustrative and more passionate'. She is in a civil partnership with Marilyn Middlemiss. She has exhibited at Beside the Wave in Falmouth, Dalkey Arts Dublin, Annyx Sag Harbour, New York, and Bonhoga Gallery, Shetland.