My art lives in the space between a photograph and a painting — and that’s exactly where I want it.
My medium is digital, but what I make has always felt closer to painting than photography to me. It isn’t quite either, and that in-between space is where the work comes alive for me — images that carry the detail and light of a photograph and the expressive quality of my painter’s hand.
This approach grew naturally from my early training as a painter and more than two decades spent working as a landscape designer and photographer, where close observation and a sensitivity to living things became second nature. As I got deeper into photography, Photoshop became the place where I could bring those instincts together, letting intuition guide me as much as technique.
I’m especially fascinated by the ways animals communicate without words through expression, gesture, and attention. There are rich, subtle conversations happening for those willing to notice. A goat’s sidelong glance. A chicken mid-thought. A horse in a moment of absolute stillness. They’re individuals with inner lives, and I treat them that way.
By highlighting that individuality, I hope my work encourages us to reconsider our relationships with the beings we share this world with — to move toward greater compassion, respect, and understanding for all living things.
Every piece I make is a little bit real, a little bit imagined. Whether animals or plants, they are a synthesis shaped by curiosity, empathy, and a desire to look deeper. My hope is that my images invite you to do the same.
Welcome. Come meet the animals and stroll in the gardens.
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2026
Conversations Too - Solo show - KOK Gallery, Warkworth
2025
Conversations - Solo show - The Lab Gallery - Toronto
The Magic of Light - Juried group show - SE Center for Photography - Greenville, SC
Apple Route Studio Tour - Northumberland County
2024
Conversations with Friends - Solo exhibition - Frantic Farms Gallery - Warkworth
Textures - Spark Photo Festival - Juried group show - Peterborough
Spirit of the Hills - Juried group show - John M. Parrott Art Gallery - Belleville
Apple Route Studio Tour - Northumberland County
2023
Making Warkworth - AH! Gallery Invitational group show, Warkworth
Conversations - Solo show - KOK Gallery, Warkworth
Buckhorn Fine Art Festival - Juried art festival - Buckhorn
Wings - Juried group show - Wild Heart Gallery - Coachella
Animals with Attitude - Juried group show - Wild Heart Gallery - Coachella
2022
Buckhorn Fine Art Festival - Juried art festival - Buckhorn
Friends - Solo exhibition- The Loft Gallery - Cobourg
2021
Conversations - Red Tower Gallery - Solo Show - Warkworth
Nourish - Spark Photo Festival - Juried group show - Peterborough
Floral - John B. Aird Gallery - Juried group show - Toronto
Transformations 2021- Juried group show - Pennsylvania Center For Photography - Philadelphia
Buckhorn Fine Art Festival - Juried art festival - Buckhorn
2020
Annual Juried group show - Art Gallery of Northumberland - Cobourg
Transformations 2020 - Juried Show- Pennsylvania Center For Photography - Pennsylvania
2019
All The Light That… - Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival - AN Gallery, Toronto
With Respect - Solo exhibition - SPARK Photo Festival - Piper Creek Studio, Castleton
Transformations 2019 - Juried Show- Pennsylvania Center For Photography - Philadelphia
Buckhorn Fine Art Festival - Juried art festival - Buckhorn
Spirit of the Hills - Juried group show - John M. Parrott Art Gallery - Belleville
2018
RMG Exposed - Juried group show - Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
100 Smalls - Juried group show - Visual Arts Centre of Clarington - Clarington
Clarington Outdoor Art Festival - Juried art festival- Clarington
Buckhorn Fine Art Festival Buckhorn - Juried art festival- Buckhorn
Riverdale ArtWalk 2018, Toronto - Juried art festival - Toronto
Warkworth Art in the Park - Juried art festival- Warkworth
Grow Op 2018 - Gladstone Hotel, Toronto - Juried group show
A Closer Look - Arts and Heritage Centre, Warkworth - SPARK Photo Festival featured exhibition
2017
Queen St. West Art Crawl - Toronto - Juried art festival
Group Show - Juried group show - Colborne Art Gallery
New Art Festival - Juried art festival - Ottawa, Ontario -
All Around Us- One person show - Capers, Campbellford, Ontario
Warkworth Art in the Park - Juried art festival- Warkworth
Berman and Weiland - SPARK Photo Festival, Peterborough and Warkworth
Berman and Thorpe - Two person exhibition - Spirit of the Hills - Campbellford, Ontario
2016
Spirit of the Hills - Juried Group Show - Northumberland Hills Hospital
Berman and Weiland - SPARK Photo Festival, Peterborough and Warkworth
All that Jazz - Juried group show Port Hope, Ontario
2015
RMG Exposed - Juried group show - Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Oshawa
2008
Beautiful, Bountiful Harvest - Solo exhibition - Toronto City Hall, Toronto
2007
Food: Beyond the Plate - Two person exhibition - Toronto City Hall Toronto
2006
Expose Urban Solutions Photo - Juried exhibition -United Nations World Urban Forum in Vancouver
In All their Infinite Variety - Solo exhibition - Toronto City Hall, Toronto
From Field to Table: FoodShare and the Power of Food - Solo exhibition - Harbourfront Centre, Toronto
The Seasons of Dufferin Grove - Solo exhibition - Toronto
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2024
Short listed - International Food Photographer of the Year
Honourable Mention - Spark Photo Festival - Juried group show
2023
Overall winner up - Wings -Wild Heart Gallery - Coachella
Overall winner up - Animals with Attitude -Wild Heart Gallery - Coachella
2021
Second Place and Honourable Mention - Spark Photo Festival - Juried group show
2016
Mayor’s Award - Colborne Art Gallery - Juried group show
2014
Commended - International Garden Photographer of the Year, Kew, UK
2011
Highly Commended - International Garden Photographer of the Year, Kew, UK
2006
Finalist - CBC The Nature of Things Nature in Focus Environmental Photography Competition
2005
Finalist-PhotoLife Image International
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Devour: Art and Lit Canada -”Laura Berman - The Inner Life of Animals”- November 2018
Trent Hills Now: “Image by Local Photographer Selected for Cover of Royal Horse Show Program: Agricultural Winter Fair” - October 15, 2018
Trent Hills Now: “Photographer Laura Berman featured this month in SPARK Festival” - April 21, 2018