Elisa Cook
Born Elisa Benbassat Bassat in Barcelona, after studying at the Lycée Français, Elisa attended University in Geneva. After graduating from the School of Interpreters and the University Institute of European Studies, she decided to stay in Switzerland. Since 2017 she has lived in Marbella, Spain. Artistic since childhood, she became a painter and studied several techniques with different teachers: watercolour, drawing, sketching, oil painting and acrylic. Her passion for painting has encouraged her to devote herself fully to researching, deepening and experimenting to perfect her style. Her paintings, while remaining very personal, reflect a constant evolution that stems from a permanent desire to go further and further. Her paintings show a gradual simplification either in the figurative or in the abstract but with an unmistakable search for light
Her work has been in exhibits all over the world as well as in the Nantong Museum, first museum of China and in the United Nations in Geneva.
One of her paintings is now included in the permanent exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art of Mataró “Nau Gaudí “ next to Picasso, Miró , Chillida, Calder, Tapies, Moore etc
1971-1976 École d’interprètes, université de GENEVA Geneva, Suisse
2023 Public’s Prize Bronze medal Paris, Seine, France
2020 Ladies Spain
2020 Radio interview Marbella, Spain
Her work has been in exhibits all over the world as well as in the Nantong Museum, first museum of China and in the United Nations in Geneva.
One of her paintings is now included in the permanent exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art of Mataró “Nau Gaudí “ next to Picasso, Miró , Chillida, Calder, Tapies, Moore etc
Education
1976-1978 Institut universitaire d’études européennes GENEVA, Suisse1971-1976 École d’interprètes, université de GENEVA Geneva, Suisse
Prizes
2023 Public’s Prize Bronze medal Paris, Seine, France
Publication sand press
2020 Ladies Spain
2020 Radio interview Marbella, Spain
