Aleda O’Connor’s vibrant pastels shed light on Hamilton’s industrial landscape

June 17, 2022 Sharika Soukup

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…