Instructor: Pete Hocking
Monday - Friday
July 27 - 31
9am - 12pm
Open studio: Mon-Thurs, 1pm - 4pm
5 sessions

Richard Diebenkorn once said that every painting starts with a feeling. In my view feeling comes from the totality of our experience of a place or thing, including from observation, fieldwork research, memory and a full range of sensory experience. Direct, spontaneous picture making (painting, drawing, photography) allows a painter to capture something ephemeral and unexpected, and slower work in the studio – often developed from reference material --provides space for considered composition. Workshop participants are invited to work plein air, with still life, self-portraiture, landscape, or abstraction with the goal of discovering ineffable qualities in their paintings. Participants are encouraged to bring source material of interest to them and can also undertake plein air work near the campus. The workshop is designed for learners of all levels who are interested in painting media or multimedia approaches. In addition to making paintings in our studio time, we will look at the work of contemporary painters and talk about our work in a meaningful way. More than anything, this workshop is designed to get you motivated to paint -- and to have fun doing it!

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). On Cape Cod he is represented by AMZehnder Gallery in Wellfleet.
petehocking.com

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