Aleda O’Connor: Hamilton’s industrial landscape in pastel

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These are beautiful.
https://www.earlscourtart.com/collections/industry


Aleda O’Connor’s vibrant pastels shed light on Hamilton’s industrial landscape
Industry on display at Earls Court Gallery

By Regina Haggo
Contributing Columnist
The Hamilton Spectator
Mon., June 13, 2022

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Many paintings of Hamilton’s industrial landscape are grey and gritty. But, that’s not how Aleda O’Connor paints local steel mills and smokestacks. She takes the grey away.

“The varied greys in the buildings pointed to the saturated colours I chose, so I took direction from that,” she says. “Eventually I began to play with colour for its own sake, but always expressed it in the actual structure of the buildings, weather and vapour around them.”

O’Connor’s work is on show in Industry, an engaging exhibition at Earls Court Gallery. She’s been exhibiting locally and internationally for more than 25 years, and has taken on a variety of subjects, including local landscapes and totally awesome pastoral-type landscapes inhabited by woolly sheep. Her paintings have been used on the sets of several TV series.

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Aleda O’Connor
What: Industry
Where: Earls Court Gallery, 215 Ottawa St. N.
When: extended until June 18
Hours: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday
Website: earlscourtart.com
Phone: 905-527-6685

"Cranes, Orange"


"Reflection"


"Blue Stack"


"Flare"



Photos of the exhibit from the Earls Court website: