Flutter - How to convert Image to List<Int>? - flutter

I want to make the following code work and I do not understand image conversion properly. Would really like someone to point me the right direction to learn this please along with providing a solution to my following problem.
I display the image as a container background image using:
MemoryImage(base64Decode(image)) // My image is in base64 String format here
The above works fine.
Now I have an image path: example-
'/data/user/0/....../cache/scaled_image_picker2751194612758734223.jpg'
How do I go from getting image from this path to base64Encode(image)?
I tried the following up to now and have run out of ideas here:
final Image? image = await Image.file(File(_imagePath));
if (image != null){
setState(() => imageDisplayInContainer = base64Encode(image)); <----Doesn't work
}

Get the file object:
File imageFile = File(_imagePath);
Get the bytes:
List<int> imageBytes = imageFile.readAsBytesSync();
Give the bytes the MemoryImage
MemoryImage(imageBytes);

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Add file_picker: ^4.3.0 to pubspec.yaml and try this:
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