From a TV studio to an art studio: Former CTV broadcaster talks about her paintings [Video]

A former CTV Ottawa broadcaster is headlining an art gallery with landscape paintings this weekend. 

“The Late Bloomer” is Leanne Cusack’s first art gallery exhibition. It started Thursday and will continue until Sunday in the Gordon Harrison Gallery at 465 Sussex Drive.

The paintings reflect some of the important landscapes of her life, she told CTV Morning Live. One of her pieces of art was inspired by her grandmother’s farm. She started with a black and white photo of the farm. She says the picture was taken in the 1940’s.

“This is based on my grandmother’s farm in Antigonish, Nova Scotia,” Cusack said while talking about her paintings.

“The foreground of the piece is based on many of her favourite flowers. She used to call us floral nicknames.”

In her paintings, Cusack also wanted to bring a feeling of nature inside through different “energy of plants,” and flowers.

“A lot of my perspective …