Her father was Michail Melas and her mother was the daughter of Ioannis Pesmazoglou, founder of the National Bank of Greece along with Georgios Stavros.

She then became a member of the United Panhellenic Organization of Youth, abbreviated EPON and of Greece's Communist Party (KKE).

After her graduation, at 1948, she worked for a period of time along her professor Dimitris Pikionis for a stele at the tomb of the bishop Chrysanthos and later for the Monument of the Fallen in Leontio, Nemea in the Peloponnese.

Where many Greek artists paid her visits such as Nikos Engonopoulos, Yannis Tsarouhis, Andreas Empirikos and Yiannis Moralis.

She drew inspiration from subjects of nature, such as birds and animals (she has created many statues of crows, capricorns, taurs, goats and pigeons) and Greek mythology as well.