Leighton Bannock is a Toronto-based painter working primarily in oil.  She’s interested in how perception shapes meaning, emerging gradually through the act of looking, returning, and the tension between what feels familiar and foreign.

Using both personal and found images as starting points, Leighton collages and repositions figures into contemporary settings to explore the relationships we form with ourselves, with others, and with the objects that shape daily life. 

Her work spans both figurative and still life painting, often incorporating cropped framings, subtle body language, and distorted reflections, prioritizing suggestive over explicit storytelling.

Through this focus, her paintings invite a slower, more attentive engagement with moments that resist certainty. Meaning is not fixed but sensed—emerging quietly through looking, association, and experience.