Eva Boulgoura was born in Constantinople in 1917. After 1922 she lived for a small period in Romania and finally settled down in Athens with her family.

She painted since she was a young girl, but her parents did not allow her to study at the School of Fine Art, Athens, instead she studied painting with Vassilios Germenis and Aristotelis Vasilikiotis and sculpture with Thanassis Apartis.

Her work included interior, still life, nude (mostly female) and landscape. Although she was initially influenced by Fauvism and Expressionism, she gradually broke away developing her language with a unique mood achieved by the gentle use of colour.

She combined the voluptuous female figure with still life, flower and fruit; the subject matter becoming a mere excuse to express feeling and intimacy through the brushwork with the whole composition emitting a poetic sensibility.

Boulgoura presented her work in a large number of solo and group exhibitions, notably at the Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris in 1964, Galerie Paul Petrides, Paris in 1970 and ‘Greek Art Today’, Upper Grosvenor Galleries, London in 1971.

Her work is found in many public and private collections, notably that of: The National Gallery of Greece, the Athens Municipal Gallery, the Rhodes Municipal Gallery, the National Bank of Greece, the Teloglion Fine Arts Foundation and the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation.