Margot Veillon was born in Cairo to a Swiss business man and an Austrian wife and settled in Maadi. She was sent to Switzerland to school in Zurich returning to Egypt in 1924 determined to become a professional artist. Spent much of her artistic career in Egypt but travelled widely around the world. A fine artist in water-colour and also a print maker mainly in etching and also an illustrator of books. She bequeathed her legacy of works to the American University in Cairo.