Largely self-taught painter, daughter of the comedian and satirist Peter Cook. Her only training was a foundation year at Hastings College of Art and Technology, 1984. She travelled extensively, taking photographs which, when left lying around in her studio, nurtured recollections of landscape to be recreated in oil on canvas. The pictures had strong abstract elements, as in her solo show Cuba, at Stephen Lacey Gallery, 1999. Previous one-man exhibitions included The Northcote Gallery, from 1997. Stephen Lacey in 2001 showed Cook’s paintings from a journey to the Australian outback, in 2003 pictures based on Hampstead Heath, which had provided her with a first experience of landscape. Cook’s mixed show appearances included La Caixa, Casa del Cultura, Majorca, 1990; Open Windows Gallery, 1994; New Grafton Gallery, 1997; and Hunting Art Prizes, Royal College of Art, 1998.