Louise Riley-Smith has specialised in portrait painting for over twenty years.  Her commissions include members of the diplomatic and civil services, clergy, lawyers, senior academics, decorated military personnel, businessmen, landowners and their wives and children.

Her portraits can be seen in Cambridge, in Emmanuel, Jesus, Corpus Christi, Trinity and Robinson Colleges; in Egham, in Royal Holloway, London University; in Oxford at Pusey House and in many private homes.

Her work has been exhibited by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters;
Leonard McComb selected work for the Kettles Yard Open, Cambridge.
A successful solo exhibition was held in Pembroke College Cambridge.

Her portrait of Elaine Page was short-listed for the Garrick/Milne Prize for a Theatrical Portrait.

Work has also been selected for The Discerning Eye, and short-listed by the Royal Society of Oil Painters.

Louise Riley-Smith's ability to combine insight into personality with representational likeness has established her as a sought-after portraitist.