Elyse Campus Cohen, a California-based artist who professionally goes simply by the name of Elyse, has gained an international reputation for her luminous watercolors, particularly her close-up, textured, dappled images of flowers.

Born in New York in 1940, Elyse began her art studies at the Brooklyn Museum when she was eight and continued her art education in New York City at the Parsons School of Design and the New School of Social Research. In 1961, newly wed and living in Greenwich Village, she entered the workforce designing textiles. Later she focused on the design and manufacture of stained glass lighting fixtures and windows, drawing inspiration from Tiffany and Art Nouveau glass for pieces made in a New York factory she owned and operated for fifteen years.
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