Pockley established her reputation with paintings of monumental cityscapes where the structures and shapes of urban sprawl are seen in diffused or minimal light.

More recently, she has begun to focus on the more natural, if not less monumental, phenomena of landscape: mountains, sea and sky. These paintings, are never specific but rather generic attempts at rendering the sublime, the ethereal, by means of thin layers of oil paint emanating from perfect surfaces and endowing them with intrinsic luminosity. The resulting paintings teeter on the verge of colour-field abstraction, with clear nods to Rothko, Richter and Turrell’s Deer Shelter Skyspace and hint at the fragility of our environment.