Carol Rhodes Obituary
David Fraser Jenkins, The Guardian
December 2018
From the 1990s onwards the artist Carol Rhodes, who has died aged 59 from motor neurone disease, created in her paintings a unique style of landscape, both traditionally beautiful and unsettling in subject. She painted imaginary places, seen from some near but airborne altitude, as if from a balloon or from the window of a plane approaching an airport – close enough to show large objects but too far away for much detail. These new places are convincing topographically and show an elegant pictorial structure, but are elusive, with nothing in them seeming at all clear. […]