Rick Hodgins was born in 1944 in Holdenville, Oklahoma and now resides at Lake Travis in the Hudson Bend area with his wife, Sherron.

He was educated at The University of Oklahoma earning a B.S. in Electrical Engineering in 1967. He sits on the Advisory Board of the Electrical Engineering school at OU. He worked as an advisor to the Navy, specifically, working with Admiral Rickover, considered the Father of the Nuclear Navy, on inertial navigation on Polaris submarines. He received Entrepreneur of the Year in Oklahoma in 1992. Today he is a Director of Emergent Technologies and Chairman of the Board of The TexArts Foundation. He enjoys a single digit golf handicap, hunting and fishing.

Rick paints in oils and watercolors. He started watercolor painting under the tutorage of Gerald Brommer of California. He has also studied with Arne Westerman, Harold Phenix, Sonya Terpening, Ron Rencher, Larrry Prellop, Tom Palmore, Gregg Krentz, Otto Deucker, William Shephard, Jeff Legg, Jean Chambers, Robert Johnson and extensively with David Leffel of The Art Students League of New York. His paintings are in private and commercial collections throughout The United States and Europe.

He is a member of Oil Painters of America and G.A.S.

He is represented by The Gallery at Round Top, Texas, The M.A. Doran Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Buffalo Trails Gallery in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.