Peter Cusack has been a painter for almost 30 years. His work is in the collections of the United States Air Force, the New York Transit Museum and the Permanent Collection of the Society of Illustrators, and has appeared in Architectural Digest, Veranda, Cool Hunting, New England Home, Aspire and Litchfield Magazine, with a forthcoming feature interview about art and wellness in Litchfield Wellness Magazine (November 2026). Gallerist Melanie Courbet of Atelier Courbet, a descendant of Gustave Courbet, commissioned three life-size figurative works from him for her salons in Paris and New York. Locally, he has had one-person shows at Mary MacGill in Germantown, NY, and the Judy Black Memorial Park and Gardens in Washington Depot, CT, and his work is currently with Brintz + County in Palm Beach, Florida.

Before turning fully to painting, he spent twelve years as a commercial artist represented by Morgan Gaynin Inc., where his work became sought after for its emotive storytelling. That career grew out of an MA at Syracuse University and the private New York studios where he began training in 1998. In between, he spent a year of classical training in the Loire Valley in France with a master painter who was also a former Zen monk.

Throughout, he has used nature and the body's experience as both subject and message. Fascinated by presence, he most recently works with classical sculpture and the open space of the canvas to create contemplative focal points that reach the viewer's mind and heart. He lives in West Cornwall and recently moved his studio into a mid-19th-century stone church in North Canaan, Connecticut.