But the process of becoming a painter is largely focused on discovering the way YOU paint, identifying your idiom, and learning to value and utilize the unique way you apply pigment to canvas. This workshop will be concerned with looking at the unique 'voice' of painters in the PAAM collection (and others) and considering the strengths and opportunities in our individual approach to painting. Participants should come with an idea of subject matter they wish to explore -- it could be landscape, portraiture, still life, abstraction, etc. -- and the appropriate reference material (photos, objects, mirrors, etc.). The workshop is geared toward oil or acrylic painting, but other media are welcome. New painters and experienced painters are encouraged to join the workshop, and instruction will be on both a group and individual basis.

Pete Hocking is a visual artist and writer working between Providence, RI & Provincetown, MA. Hocking is represented by Four Eleven Gallery in Provincetown, MA. In addition to regularly showing at Four Eleven Gallery, in the past year he’s shown with The Dorado Project in Jersey City, NJ and the Plough Gallery in Tifton, GA. He has an upcoming show at the Chazan Gallery in Providence, RI in September 2018. He teaches at Goddard College in the Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts program and in the Division of Liberal Arts at Rhode Island School of Design.  Hocking is a founding board member of the Provincetown Commons, an economic development center for the arts and creative economy.