Education
Hodgkinson was educated at Fort Street High School and after leaving began work as a commercial artist and newspaper illustrator. He studied at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.
Hodgkinson was educated at Fort Street High School and after leaving began work as a commercial artist and newspaper illustrator. He studied at the Royal Art Society of New South Wales.
At the outbreak of World World War II he joined the Army and served in the Middle East, North Africa, New Guinea and Borneo as an official war artist. Following the war he studied and worked in Europe, especially Spain. Hodgkinson moved back to Australia in 1970 and in 1971 took up residence in the bush north of Melbourne at Dunmoochin on the invitation of Clifton Pugh.
Pugh introduced Hodgkinson to oil viscosity printing.
Hodgkinson married Kate Ratten in 1976 then moved to Kenthurst, outside Sydney.