Although the British artist has never seen a live whale, nor spent any time at sea, Hodgkinson is fascinated with whales, whaling, and the history of women in whaling. A professional artist with many solo and group exhibitions to her name, she earned degrees at Chelsea College and Art and Design and Emmanuel College in Cambridge, UK. In her recent solo exhibition at Crowell’s Fine Art in New Bedford, she used digitally-based non-figurative geometric compositions to explore the unseen depths of the sea and the battle between the sperm whale and giant squid.