Toronto-based artist Laura Findlay presents *Night Vision*, a solo exhibition at Glenhyrst Art Gallery in Brantford, Ontario, featuring ethereal oil paintings of nocturnal garden scenes. Using an Old Masters subtractive technique, Findlay applies dark glazes and wipes away pigment to create luminous images of birds, blooms, and bats that appear to emerge from darkness. The show runs through the spring of 2026.
This exhibition matters because it highlights a working commercial photographer who translates photographic vision into painting, exploring themes of absence, vulnerability, and the cycle of life and death in nature. Curator Matthew Ryan Smith notes that Findlay's work prompts introspection about human fragility and connection, making the show a timely meditation on precarity in the natural world.