Stockton’s artistic process is purposely guided by action and momentum, each canvas a conduit for a specific temporal emotion or concept. The chromatic variability of her work is the result of this intuitive practice, in which abstraction and color take forceful precedence. Color in particular is charged with emotion, with pure white taking on a markedly focal character. In many of her works, the final layer of paint is often a shimmering veil of white, which serves to create a captivating iridescence and alluring inscrutability.

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Childhood memories of the coast of Stockton’s native Georgia deeply inform the context of her work. The enormity of the Georgian seascape, with its seemingly endless horizon, had a strong impact on the artist’s aesthetic sensibilities. In fact, according to Stockton “decades later, my abstract oils can be viewed as metaphorical interpretations of that mysterious line and the surrounding landscape.”