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MARION GRACE HOCKEN(1923 -1987)

“Studio Still Life, Zennor”. Oil painting on board.

25” x 30” (635 x 762mm). Signed & dated.

Provenance – from the Artist’s Studio Collection. IMAGE

Marion Grace Hocken was born in Zennor Cornwall and in her teens studied with Arthur Hambley at Redruth School of Art. She also studied at the Brighton Schools of Art. She exhibited at Downing’s Bookshop in St. Ives with Peter Lanyon, Brian Wynter, Isobel Heath and others. In 1949 she was a founder member of the Penwith Society of Arts. She also exhibited at the Royal Academy and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, of which she was a member, the Paris Salon and in South Africa and many provincial galleries. She was a Botanist and a Member of the Zoological Society. In 1957 she exhibited a large symbolist canvas titled “The Hollow Men”, which was based on the T.S. Elliot poem and which caused a great deal of protest in St. Ives as it suggested a decline into materialism and lack of values of its people. For the next 30 years Hocken lived a reclusive life in Carbis Bay following the reception of “The Hollow Men”.

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