Before the artist begins a piece, she needs to find the right photograph for inspiration – a task often shared with her husband, Chris Cobbold, a keen Ipswich Town fan.
Despite sharing a surname name and their love of the club, the couple are not related to the Suffolk brewing family after whom the team’s Cobbold Stand is named.
Chris said: “We wouldn’t have pictured my passion for football and her passion for art coming together, but that’s what’s happened.
“Take one player, Lief Davis, as an example – we would have looked through more than a thousand photographs to find the right one.”
Louise added: “It’s always really important to find an image that shows something of their personality and presents the player in the best possible light – something they would really like themselves.”
As well as her work for Ipswich Town, Cobbold also paints for trading card company Topps and has created portraits of other footballers beyond the Suffolk-based club, including Manchester City’s Erling Haaland and Barcelona’s Marcus Rashford.