Tom Hodgson

Thomas Hodgson (June 5, 1924 – February 27, 2006) was a Canadian sprint canoer who gained his first Canadian title in 1941 and competed in the 1950s,

Career 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. Discharged in 1945, he attended the Ontario College of Art.

Work His work is characterized by a large format, in bold colours and strokes of paint. One critic calls him the consummate gestural painter of the Eleven, gutsy and aggressive but finally, lyrical. He thought of abstraction as abstracting a feeling or memory of something rather than a record of nature.