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Oct 26 - New mural brings colour to Esquimalt condo
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Capital Daily Team
October 26, 2025
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Mural meant to bring some colour to drab Esquimalt condo facade
Mural on Pacific House in Esquimalt. Photo: Mark Brennae / Capital Daily
A large mural is going up on the east-facing side of the Pacific House condo in Esquimalt, and artist Liesl Petersen says she hopes it brings a little colour to the neighbourhood.
“I definitely am the kind of person who's deeply offended by concrete walls,” she says, as she takes a break from her painting duties high atop a suspended platform leaning against the 10-storey condo on Esquimalt and Head.
“I actually don't like the amount of sterile colours and grey and clinical colours that everybody uses these days. So I try to infuse really bold, bright colours wherever I [have] the opportunity.”
Petersen got that opportunity almost three years ago when she applied to paint over one side of the building, when it was still in the planning stages.
“We’re 70% done and working our way down,” she tells Capital Daily, adding the mural should be finished in the next week or so.
Looking west at the wall, you’ll see Petersen’s forest of purple trees in the foreground with an orange sky and lighter-purple mountains behind.
Social media comments on the work in progress have ranged from “Love it” to the faceplant emoji to “Anything to cover up that hideous blank wall” to “All there (sic) doing is hiding how ugly the concrete looks.”
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