{"id":85633,"date":"2025-11-25T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=85633"},"modified":"2025-11-21T18:45:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:45:42","slug":"feature-artist-pamella-oconnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/feature-artist-pamella-oconnor\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Feature Artist:<\/strong> Pamella O&#8217;Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85635\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85635\" class=\"size-full wp-image-85635\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-combo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-combo.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-combo-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-combo-1024x554.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-combo-768x415.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-combo-810x438.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-combo-1140x617.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-85635\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Left) Driftwood Dream 1; (Right) Driftwood Dream 2. Pamella O&#8217;Connor, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Pamella O\u2019Connor traces her love of artistry directly back to her mother who raised six children, cooked fabulous meals and expressed her creativity in their Iowa home. \u201cWith very little money, she created a lovely home for us and I believe a good bit of my creative instinct flows directly from her,\u201d Pamella says, recalling a \u201cstained glass\u201d look her mother created on windows using colored tissue paper. \u201cI thought it was beautiful. I marveled at how she had imagined that and brought it to life. And at the age of seven, I witnessed her knock down a wall in our home to open the living room space up. She was tough and creative!\u201d Despite the creativity she modeled, \u201cI am the only one in the family who has pursued a life in the arts,\u201d Pamella says. \u201cEveryone else made much more reasonable choices.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85624\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85624\" class=\"wp-image-85624\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-the-wave-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-the-wave-copy-2.jpg 1190w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-the-wave-copy-2-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-the-wave-copy-2-762x1024.jpg 762w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-the-wave-copy-2-768x1033.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-the-wave-copy-2-1142x1536.jpg 1142w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-the-wave-copy-2-810x1089.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-the-wave-copy-2-1140x1533.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-85624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wave. Pamella O\u2019Connor, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pamella\u2019s life in the arts began with theater. With the encouragement of an eighth-grade teacher, she embraced school plays, carrying that love through high school and then majoring in Theater in college. \u201cI spent 30 years of my professional life as a theater artist,\u201d Pamella says. \u201cOver the course of that career, I acted, directed and produced traditional as well as puppet theater. My move to Asheville was precipitated by my desire to be a self-generating artist, creating my own work and stories through puppetry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When grants dried up during the 2008 financial crisis, she took a job in South Korea that allowed her to teach English using puppetry. \u201cWhile there, I fell in love with their handmade paper and one particular application\u2014flower lamps,\u201d she says. \u201cI sought out a master of this craft and studied with her for nine months. I have always appreciated soft, ambient lighting in my home, so this craft really spoke to my soul.\u201d She launched her business, Hanji Home, in 2012, after receiving a Merit Award and Emerging Artist Grant to attend the Buyer\u2019s Market of American Craft, in Philadelphia. Twenty-five galleries placed orders with her while she was there.<\/p>\n<p>Her craft is labor-intensive and she works on multiple lamps at the same time. The bases often suggest the lamp\u2019s eventual design. \u201cI love exotic woods, driftwood and unique objects for my bases and the challenge of creating these one-of-a-kinds gives me great pleasure,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_85621\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85621\" class=\"wp-image-85621\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Feature-Artist-Pamella-OConnor-custom-5poppies-on-black-walnut-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-85621\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">5 Poppies on black walnut. Pamella O&#8217;Connor, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The flowers are built of acetate, and covered with paper. \u201cThen I am ready to insert the socket, attach the bonsai wire stem, build the neck, add leaves and cover all with multiple layers of paper,\u201d Pamella says. \u201cIn the end, everything the hand touches on the flower is Hanji paper, but it is the substructures I use that make them highly shippable. They are strong and durable. A large part of my business is custom orders, so I am delighted that they ship so well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When someone once told her that it seemed as if her lamps wanted to talk, they weren\u2019t far from what goes through Pamella\u2019s mind as she creates. \u201cPerhaps it is my puppetry and theatre background, but I often think of my flowers as characters and a design like a small vignette,\u201d she says. \u201cEach piece is named.\u201d She has, she decided, found a new end product for the energy she always put into creating characters for the stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn this time of political discord, AI-generated words and images, and social discontent, I believe that art is a salve, a way of softening, opening, healing and inspiring,\u201d Pamella says. \u201cI would like this reading audience to know that we, the arts community of Asheville, are working hard to make the RAD and the whole local arts scene as vibrant and welcoming as possible. Come see us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>See Pamella O\u2019Connor\u2019s work at the Grovewood Gallery, in Asheville, and at 362 Depot, in the River Arts District. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/HanjiHome.net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HanjiHome.net<\/a>. 362 Depot is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day, and O\u2019Connor will meet clients there by appointment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pamella O\u2019Connor traces her love of artistry directly back to her mother who raised six children, cooked fabulous meals and expressed her creativity in their Iowa home. \u201cWith very little money, she created a lovely home for us and I believe a good bit of my creative instinct flows directly from her.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":85621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-craft-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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