Opening Reception
Thursday, June 12 | 7 - 9 pm
June 12 - July 19, 2025
Earls Court Gallery is launching into the summer season with our exhibit “No Place Certain” featuring new artworks by Ian Mclean, Alex Marks and Ron Eady.
“No Place Certain” brings together three artists whose artworks explore the tension between rootedness and drift—psychological, spatial, and emotional. Many of the artworks instill an uncanny feeling along with imparting a bit of truth to pull you in. This is accomplished by each artist’s uses of otherworldly colour combinations, narrative tension or the expansive language of abstraction to conjure worlds slightly out of reach. These artworks summon and transfix the viewer.
“No Place Certain” exhibition can be viewed in person at 215 Ottawa Street North, Hamilton. Earls Court Gallery is open Tuesday – Friday 10 am to 5 pm and Saturday 10 am to 4 pm. The artworks will be featured in the main gallery. All artworks will be featured online upon installation.
Please join us Thursday, June 12, from 7-9 pm to meet the artists: Ian Mclean, Alex Marks and Ron Eady.
Entry is free | Family Friendly | Fully Accessible | Groups Welcomed
Words From The Artists
Ian McLean
My paintings are rooted in the architecture of mid twentieth century houses – structures that, for me, evoke a specific cultural memory yet feel suspended in time. These homes, both familiar and elusive, serve as vessels for nostalgia, longing, and the unknown. Each painting is a meditation on control and its limits. Colour is central to my process. I use unexpected, sometimes otherworldly colour as a form of allure and disruption. The palette becomes a language of its own – expressing what memory distorts, forgets, or transforms. Ultimately, my practice is about the blur between worlds - between the constructed and the organic, the known and the mysterious, the remembered and the imagined.
Alex Marks
In 2025, Origin signals a return to abstraction, this time through a more elemental lens. This series engages with gesture, colour, and movement to access a deeper, intuitive register. Origin suggests a space before language and form—a primal field in which subconscious rhythms emerge.
Ron Eady
The works in this show continue with my interest in exploring various ways of escaping to quieter places for unknown adventures. I like to create an atmosphere of uncertainty.