Salon des Refusés
In 1990 Finlay left acting to be a painter. She has had several portraits in the Portia Geach Memorial Award. In 2006 her portrait of Hugo Weaving was hung in the Archibald Prize "Salon des Refusés". In 2018 she was an Archibald Prize finalist for her portrait of Peter and Susan O'Doherty, and their cat Coco.