Born in Bayburt in 1983, Zeynep Elçi graduated from Anadolu University, Faculty of Business Administration in 2004. In 2006, she started his work on illuminated manuscript. After two years of training at the illuminated manuscript course, Pendik municipality she attended Harun Yılmaz's illuminated manuscript courses in 2008.
In 2012, Zehra started her miniature studies by attending the miniature lessons of the Mediterranean. In 2014, she took lessons from Özcan Özcan and Cihangir Ashurov in the classical Turkish Arts Foundation.
Since 2012, Mrs. Elçi has participated in many exhibitions organized both in Turkey and abroad, and continues her activities with Özcan Özcan and Cihangir Aşurov.