Efi Beghni was born and raised at the beautiful island of the Argosaronic Sea, Salamina, near Athens.
The early contact with nature impressed young Efi, to a great extend, who has ever since tried to maintain this immaculate beauty inside her, pure and unaffected.

Even today the primal source of the artist’s inspiration, is the wild, natural landscape, which she has tried to eternally ‘capture’ in her art, as a way to preserve it, just like a precious treasure, from the harmful humane intervention.

At her early childhood the first pictorial stimuli took form when she became an apprentice near her uncle Mimis Antoniou, a well-known painter in Greece and self instructive graphics designer,

who actually designed the well-known glass bottle of PEPSI-COLA, on behalf of the multinational company.

When in high-school, the young artist moved with her family to Italy, because of her father’s profession as a military attache, her family travelled often and for long intervals. During these travels, young Efi constantly observed the natural landscape and all the different people with their different needs.

With all these alternate pictures whilst travelling, she started shaping a sort of a ‘nomad’ poetic view of this ‘union of mixed tribes’ that was demanding unity more than anything, among all the differences, meaning the potentiality for ‘agreement’ of each person or tribe, big or small, to co-exist at all levels, without loosing their personal identity.
Nowadays, this folklore testimony of the artist’s child soul, is intensely imprinted in her various art works, picturing unique species of the animal kingdom not necessarily belonging to any familiar group, but in the end forming an extraordinary combination, with real characteristics from animals and birds.

The sheer result of this is a completely innovating and fresh view in the field of artistic compilation of features, usually done in other cases, just with characterless beings. Her art is a poetic approach of an animal & nature study along with fantasy, made with harmony and grace.

Beyond acknowledging our natural heritage, the final result for us is to be shown a way to explore how the apparently incompatible particulars can successfully co-exist.
These works of art are also constituted of a personal life-theory, childhood sensibility and affection for animals.
In Rome, Efi Beghni remained for three years, graduating the Italian high school, Caterina Cittadini.

At the age of 13 she took porcelain drawing lessons at Mrs Margherita Viola Galloni’s workshop, where she created some of her first art works. Ever since the abstract picturesque drive for fine arts has been shaped and concentrated on porcelain drawing exclusively.

Returning to Greece, the now mind-settled artist worked at times in drawing workshops, such as ceramic workshops along with attending lots of different drawing lessons next to exceptional art creators such as the painter Fernando Fennes.
In later years she attended various skilled and modern techniques in porcelain and glass drawing seminars, such as those delivered by professors Ms Antoinette Scherrer and Andreas Knobl, at Mrs Marilena Patronicola’s school.

At her workshop, where today is her natural, daily environment, the experienced artist ‘brings to life’ mostly nature themes. Each part is unique; no matter how many times the specific theme is repeated. This happens as handcrafted art is not mechanical, nor a cold procedure. In each and every piece, there is a real deposit of soul, piece of psyche and personal statement to icon all her love, passion and dedication to this delicate process of designing, colour mixing and scorching the porcelain.

The story, just like any other romance, sounds more or less recognizable… the lustrous beauty of fine white porcelain falls in deep love for colour… and the eventual creation that is born is the genuine child of a passionate love. Not so much a plain piece of porcelain, but a brand new object, a fresh creation, so distinct!

Efi Beghni is a ‘Middlessex University of Athens’ graduate. She studied Fine Arts and graphics for 3 years and got the degree of: “Diploma of Highest University in Graphics” .
In the last 5 years, she established an exhibition-workshop in Salamina Island, as well as, in Piraeus, Athens, where she had an opportunity to introduce her work

In later days, having to follow the era stream she maintains an On-line gallery-shop in which all of her craft works are presented. (visit: www.handpainted.gr ).

Efi Beghni, is also an official member of the club UNESCO of the Department of Pireus & Islands and occasionally takes part in various exhibitions in Greece as well as abroad.