Hugh’s satirical illustration work focuses on social commentary casting a sharp but humorous eye over everyday life. His brilliant watercolours display a preoccupation with the foibles of human frailty and the paradoxes therein.
In the nineties Hugh created the ‘City Croft’, a daily cartoon strip with Maxwell Macleod which ran for three years in the Herald, Hugh has also established a reputation as both a figurative and landscape painter.
Since the eighties, he has contributed to several UK publications as both editor and feature writer covering several different areas including art, antiques and golf.
He lives and works in East Lothian.
“I am drawn to how Burns displayed in his words and song such a wonderful empathy with the individual. His intrinsic compassion as always moved me, but more so his abilities to connect with the humble and indeed commonplace seems always to have set him so far apart. The smallest of things which might have seemed quite inconsequential to us he noticed and glorified with a focus profound and better still, often laced with a serious belt of humour thrown in . I just love that sense of his perception!”
Hugh Dodd
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