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hocking.reid@gmail.com Please do send me and email if you have any questions. I would enjoy hearing from you.
After decades in London, 15 years in Cyprus, I now live next door to my dear daughter in beautiful Wales and look out to the Brecon Beacons every morning when I go out to feed the chickens. I am learning woodland management so that I can restore our ancient oak, beech, hazel and ash woodland. I I have a studio for drawing in my cottage and a small sculpture studio in one of the outbuildings.
My father, John Gilbert Hocking (Gib), was a topologist. He tempted my imagination as a young person with the strange and wonderful inhabitants of the world of topology. I did not forget how they intrigued me. I began exploring topology as a source for my artwork a decade ago. I am very, very fortunate to have struck up a working friendship with topologist and knot theorist, Scott Carter, professor emeritus of University of South Alabama. We zoom often. He patiently fields all sorts of questions from me, helping me to grasp the mind bending concepts of knot theory.
Ara Nigogossian and I moved to a very small village in Cyprus where we began to make fine copies of ancient Cypriot ceramics in 1988. The Triskelion Pottery collection you can see on this website, is looking for a home. I want it to stay together as a collection after my demise. The pottery highlights the wonderful imagination and aesthetics of the potters of Cyprus, from long before the island became a Greek province. After my demise, ( I am in my 70s so it may be some while! Or not.) I would like to bequeath it to a museum, an institute or a university with a small endowment to cover shipping and display cases. Please feel free to write to me if you know some place for the collection to reside.
There is a form below for you to send an inquiry if you are interested in any of my work. Mention the title and I will comeback to you with the options available for the work. Or if you wish you can use the form to make a comment or to get in touch. The pottery is not for sale and I no longer take commissions for portrait sculpture.
Please feel free to contact me, Nancy Hocking I’d be delighted to have your feedback.