Meli Elli

Born in Constantinople. She studied painting and graphic design at the Doxiadis School in Athens, as well as at the École des Arts Décoratifs et du Bâtiment in Grenoble, France.

She has held sixteen solo exhibitions in Greece and France and has participated in numerous group and thematic exhibitions both in Greece and abroad, as well as in open painting workshops.

For twenty years, she taught painting at the Constantinopolitan Association, leading annual painting courses for both adults and children.

Her work has been reviewed by esteemed art critics and historians, including Diana Antonakatou (painter and art critic), Eva Delavinia (art critic), Dora Markatou (art historian), Athanasios Pappas (historian and art critic), Dora Rogan (art historian and critic), Nikos Tsoukas (art scholar), and Giorgos Kordis (painter).

Her paintings are part of both public and private collections in Greece and abroad. Her biography is included in the Dictionary of Greek Artists, published by Melissa Editions. She is a member of the Greek Chamber of Fine Arts and the Society for the Study of the Eastern World, as well as a permanent contributor to the literary and arts magazine Kinsterna.

In addition to her visual arts career, she has published two poetry collections: Of Love, Silence, and Solitude (tou erota tis siopis tis monaxias), published by Dodoni Editions, Athens (1994), and Terra Sigillata, published by the Society for the Study of the Eastern World, Athens (2005). Her latest poetry collection, Mous Lemoni, is forthcoming from Koukida Editions.

In 2008, she participated in the international poetry festival SIIRISTANBUL in Constantinople, and in 2015, in the International Literary Festival of Smyrna.