Roddy Hutchison is a contemporary visual artist living in Edinburgh, Scotland. He is a self taught painter, photographer and musician.

Roddy is especially influenced by 19th to 21st Century Art ranging from Dadaism, Surrealism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism through to contemporary modern art and photography. Notable figures such as Howard Hodgkin, Pierre Soulages, Temara de Lempika, Max Ernst, Man Ray, Francis Bacon, Henri Matisse, Paul Gaugin, Franz Kline, Willem de Kooning, Bridget Reilly, Robert Motherwell, Cindy Sherman, Ken Currie and Jonathan Freemantle all inspire and inform Roddy’s work.

Many of his paintings are completely unplanned, rather choosing a colour palette to convey inner feelings and thoughts onto the canvas. Roddy prefers to work quickly to render the sentiment as faithfully as possible. He works with oil, acrylic, oil stick as well as old newspapers/ found objects and often achieves interesting shapes, marks and texture in his work.

Roddy is a keen photographer and loves to capture street scenes locally or from his travels, shoots architectural and landscape photography, portrait, artistic/ realist / abstract and surrealist scenes which serves to record the richness of human experience.

Roddy believes that perfection is the enemy of progress, his preference is to keep experimenting with new techniques instinctually, unafraid of failing which he finds essential to make satisfactory work.

He is also a drummer, DJ and producer of various types of electronic music.