Effie Pourani was born in Thessaloniki in 1953 where she attended the School for Mosaics.  For the past 16 years she has been working in the Center of Applied Arts, ILIOS, with her teacher Dimitris Karlaftopoulos where she has participated in yearly exhibits. She has also attended three years of sculpture classes at the same center.  She is a member of SKETBE, the artists association of Northern Greece and has taken part in 15 group exhibits.