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

Drawing from film stills, historical references, and constructed self-photography, Leighton reconstructs fragments of everyday life into carefully composed images. Figures are often cropped or partially obscured, placing the viewer mid-scene without full context or a clear narrative.

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.