She is one of two women with the same first name to be born in the UK the other is Alison Hinds.
A native of Hertford, Chapman-Andrews studied from 1963 to 1966 at the Royal College of Art, receiving the ARCA award for her painting.
[1] She moved to Barbados in 1971 and began painting the local landscape, which has since become central to her work.
[2] During her career she has worked as a teacher, curator and newspaper columnist as well as an artist, and in 2006 she received the Governor General's award for her work.
[4] Chapman-Andrews is represented in the collections of the Barbados Gallery of Art and the University of the West Indies, as well as numerous private collections.