Louise J. Buckelew studied art at universities in four states and received private instruction from several Southern California artists. She was a member of the Southern California Artist’s Association, a group of 125 artists. Membership was invitation only and included a private jury of each artist’s paintings.

More than twenty years were spent in producing commercial art as a free-lance artist in California, Arkansas and Texas and as a full partner/owner of Pinecliff Advertising Agency in Shawnee, Oklahoma, serving clients in Tulsa and Oklahoma City.

Important influences on her art were the still life paintings of Albrecht Durer, Henk Bos and Jean Chardin, the botanical paintings of Pierre Redoute and abstracts by Pablo Picasso.