Eva Mela was born in Athens in 1956. In 1980 she got her bachelor’s degree in engraving, from the Athens School of Fine Arts and a year later she received a Certificate of Studies in Typography and the Art of  Bookmaking, from the same faculty. In 1982 she takes drawing and painting classes in Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts. From 1985 to 1988 she did postgraduate studies in engraving, with a scholarship from the Greek National Scholarship Foundation (IKY). She has also studied engraving for a long period of time, under the engraver George Varlamos. She has been distinguished numerous times, like in 1984, when she won one of the two first prizes of the PanHellenic Artistic competition held by the Greek Post Office to design a stamp on the “150 years of Athens as the capital of Greece”, and in 1989 when she was awarded the third prize at the National Artistic Book Design Contest on “Hymn to Freedom” of D. Solomos (held by the Greek Ministry of Culture Centre of Fine Arts and Letters). In 2000 she also won the Greek National Children’s Book Illustration Prize, Award for the year 2000, awarded by the Circle of the Greek Children’s Book. During her long-term carrier, she has had 24 solo exhibitions in Greece and 4 solo exhibitions abroad (Germany, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Brussels). Moreover, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Greece and abroad, as in the touring shows held by the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, with the Company A. Tassos in exhibitions for peace, in exhibitions by the Greek Communist Party, in the Festivals of Communist Youth, in the exhibitions “People, color and iron” 2006-2017, with the artists’ movements “Perasma”, in the exhibitions of Greek Books Illustrators for kinds, and many others. She is involved in book illustrations, in graphic design and painting on buildings and professional spaces. During the years 2007-2009 she was a member of the parliament for the Communist Party of Greece. She is the Chairman of the Chamber of The Fine Arts of Greece