Born at the beginning of the Nigerian Civil War in 1967, Onyeama's best of infant memories was being preoccupied by art, especially of the pre-school age of 3 when he would always draw on his mother's classroom blackboard.
The 1992 Architecture graduate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka became a full-time studio artist after graduation but still find time to explore the limits to which elements and philosophies of art could be brought to bear on creative design.
According to Onyeama, "Painting is a way of dreaming with my eyes open. I am regularly confronted by apparitions of spiralling ellipsoids and candle-flies, as my atmosphere is suffused with floating fluxes and light-seeds parachuting down my mind. Therefore it comes as no surprise that I see mostly in adjectives, of the tapesteriods and drizzles that characterise my canvases".