| BRITISH COLUMBIA ARTISTS |
A 1942 article in the Sun noted that she was an artist and a reporter.
She had solo exhibitions of her coastal paintings at the Vancouver Art Gallery from July 30 - August 11, 1940, and from May 1 to 20, 1945.
Exhibition entry forms noted she was living in Hartley Bay in 1940 and then Prince Rupert in 1947. Macdonald notes that no information was available on Findlay after an article in 1945. A letter from Findlay dated October 2 1949, on file at the Vancouver Art Gallery Library, points out the difficulties she was having in maintaining an art career "up the coast":
Masset, B.C.
Queen Charlotte Islands,
Oct. 2nd, 1949.
Dear Sir:-
I would like to point out one of the difficulties of sending
in entries from coast and island ports served by monthly
or bi-monthly mail boats.
In Masset, for instance, a boat calls every two weeks.
Entry forms for the B.C. Artists' Exhibition were
delivered to me on Sept. 17th. It would have been possible
to have returned them by the deadline, Sept. 24th, but the
boat leaving to-day, by which this letter is being sent,
will arrive too late for the deadline for the entries
themselves. Would it not be possible to have the entries
sent out a month or more in advance of the time for paintings
to be sent in? I am sorry not to be able to enter this
exhibition. To send large paintings by air is prohibitive in cost.
If you will bring this matter up in Committee I shall be
grateful. This is the second successive exhibition that our
boats have not been on a schedule which would permit sending
entries from here.
Sincerely,
(signed Jean Ness Findlay)
The lack of subsequent exhibitions of her work in Vancouver would indicate that the matter was not satisfactorily resolved. In similar correspondence, another coastal artist plaintively noted that the only ship on which they could have sent their work to an exhibition was the same boat that delivered the invitation to the show. By the time they received their mail the ship was gone.
BC Vital Statistics on-line did not provide any confirmed information on the artist as of May 2021.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| DATE | EXHIBITION | LOCATION |
| 1940 July 30 - Aug. 11 | Indian Paintings | VAG |
| 1945 May 1 - 20 | Exhibition of Paintings | VAG |
| DATE | EXHIBITION | ARTWORK |
| 1934 Sept. 21 - Oct. 14 | VAG B.C. Artists 3rd Annual | Moorings |
| Horseshoe Bay | ||
| 1940 Sept. 20 - Oct. 13 | VAG B.C. Artists 9th Annual | Indian Sermon |
| 1941 Sept. 26 - Oct. 19 | VAG B.C. Artists 10th Annual | Bridge at Kulkayu |
| A Kitlope Child | ||
| 1944 Sept. 23 - Oct. 22 | VAG B.C. Artists 13th Annual | Indian Netmaker |
| Tsimshean Oracle | ||
| 1944 Nov. 21 - Dec. 10 | Labour Arts Guild 1st B.C. At Work | Unloading at Midnight |
| 1945 Sept. 22 - Oct. 21 | VAG B.C. Artists 14th Annual | Flowers in a Window |
| 1947 Sept. 20 - Oct. 12 | VAG B.C. Artists 16th Annual | Where the Bulkley Meets the Skeena |
BRITISH COLUMBIA WOMEN ARTISTS 1885-1985 (refer to AGGV85)
MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS - SPRING EXHIBITIONS 1880 - 1970 (refer to MM88)
A DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN ARTISTS (refer to M)
BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX OF ARTISTS IN CANADA (refer to BIAC03)
2 references cited for Findlay.
https://cwahi.concordia.ca/sources/artists/displayArtist.php?ID_artist=4322
"Indian Life and Murals Displayed"
News Herald, July 31 1940
“In B.C. Lighthouses” by Jean Ness Findlay
Vancouver Sun, December 26 1942