“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