Nicola Green

Nicola Green (born 1972) is a British portrait painter. Among her subjects have been the Dalai Lama, Barack Obama, and Elle Macpherson.[1]

Nicola Green
Photographic self-portrait
Born	1972 (age 47–48)
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Edinburgh College of Art
Spouse(s)	David Lammy (m. 2005)
Website	nicolagreen.com

In 2005, Green married David Lammy, a Labour Member of Parliament. They have three children.[1][2]

Green has twice been among the exhibitors for the BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery in London, in 2006 and in 2008.[3][4]

In 2010, Green created In Seven Days... a set of seven silk-screen prints depicting Barack Obama's presidential election campaign. [5] Green was inspired by her mixed-heritage children to record these events for the future. [6] She gained access to Obama’s campaign, making six trips to events, such as his nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Denver and Inauguration in Washington D.C. [6] No other artist has got this close to a presidential campaign in history.[7] In 2011 a set of In Seven Days...was donated to the Library of Congress; another set is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.[8] This series has also been exhibited at Harvard Law School,[9] Walker Art Gallery[10] and Said Business School. [11]

In 2018 Encounters, a series of fifty portraits of religious leaders all with their faces and hands painted out, was shown at the church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields in Trafalgar Square. Among those represented were the Pope, the Dalai Lama, Ali Gomaa, Jonathan Sacks and Justin Welby.[12]