Pete Hocking
“Hocking remains a bit of a magician when it comes to depicting the Outer Cape landscape through precisely measured and perfectly articulated tracts of paint. Step in close and his canvases dissolve; step back and take in the relaxing balm of the scene. ‘I don’t want to be blinded by things over which I have no control,’ says Hocking in a press release. ‘I want to live in radical amazement of what’s before me. I want my paintings to be instigated by joy.’”
— Provincetown Independent, August 27, 2021
Pete Hocking is a painter, teacher, curator & writer on Cape Cod. His work is concerned with nature, place, poetics, and identity. He's a founding board member of Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the creative economy. He taught part-time at RI School of Design from 1997- 2022. From 2003-2021 he was full-time faculty in Goddard College’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts program. He was director of RISD’s Office of Public Engagement (2007-11), and Associate Dean of the College & Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University (1992-2005).
Pete Hocking , "Fragile Edge", 2025. Framed oil on canvas, 40×40”.
Pete Hocking, "Overhead the Sun", 2025. Framed oil on canvas, 40×40”.
Pete Hocking, "Path to Beach", 2026. Framed oil on panel, 9×12”.
Pete Hocking, "Pamet Watershed", 2025. Framed oil on panel, 8x8".
Pete Hocking, "Wish You Were Here, v. 3, no. 14" 2026. Framed oil on panel, 4×6”.
Pete Hocking, "Great Island Ridge Trail", 2025. Framed oil on canvas, 36×36”.
Pete Hocking, "Eternal Worlds", 2026. Framed oil on canvas, 24x48".
Pete Hocking, "Hiking Above", 2026. Framed oil on canvas, 36×48”.
Pete Hocking, "Marsh Sunset", 2026. Framed oil on panel, 9×12”.
Pete Hocking, "Backside Hollow", 2025. Framed oil on panel, 8×8”.
Pete Hocking, "Winter Light, No. 2", 2025. Framed oil on panel, 8×8”.
Pete Hocking, "The Great Heights", 2025. Framed oil on panel, 12x12".
Pete Hocking, "Newcomb Hollow", 2025. Framed, oil on canvas, 40×40”.
Pete Hocking, "Dune Tour With George and Phil", 2026. Framed oil on canvas, 24×48”.
Pete Hocking, "Nature of the Sky", 2026. Framed oil on panel, 8×8”.
Pete Hocking, "Wish you Were Here, v. 3, no. 15", 2026. Framed oil on panel, 6×4”.