Marsha "Mona" Louviere is an Alabama native with her roots planted firmly in New Orleans. The juxtaposition of country life in rural Alabama and city life in the wildly unique New Orleans has given her much to draw from in her paintings, be it the unique architecture, lush flora, the Mighty Mississippi, or the many swamps. These things show up almost subconsciously in her paintings. Her interest in art has been since childhood, but her dedicated efforts to painting, almost exclusively Non-objective and/or Abstract Art, began in 2005 when she enrolled in classes at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts under the tutelage of Nell Tilton and other noted instructors.