Chinwe Chukwuogo Roy
Chinwe Ifeoma ChukwuogoRoy MBE was a visual artist who was born in Ondo, Nigeria, and spent much of her young life in Ikom on the Cameroon border, before moving back to the family home at Umubele in Awka. She lived in Britain since 1975. Her paintings, prints and sculptures are predominantly figurative, in the genres of portraiture, stilllife, landscape and narrative subjects. She won international attention in 2002 for being only one of two Nigerian artists to have been allowed to paint official portraits of Queen Elizabeth II.
Chinwe ChukwuogoRoy was born in Ondo State, Nigeria, but moved with her family to Ikom in Cross Rivers State, where her father had extensive cocoa plantations. As a teenager she was a refugee in the Biafran War after which she moved to the family home in Awka Anambra State and in 1975 she moved to Britain. She studied at East Ham College and subsequently obtained a B.A. Hons. Degree in Graphic Design from Hornsey College of Art in 1978. She took up painting professionally in 1988.
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