Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of eighth in the C-2 1000 m event at Helsinki in 1952.
[3] Hodgson grew up on Toronto's Centre Island and started painting as a child.
He attended Central Technical High School in Toronto, then in 1943 began to serve in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.
[3][2] His work is characterized by a large format, in bold colours and strokes of paint.
[6] One critic calls him the consummate gestural painter of the Eleven, gutsy and aggressive but finally, lyrical.