Road to Nowhere
Rosie Lesso, The List
January 2008
Carol Rhodes’ meditative, repetitive approach to landscape painting could be linked to artists such as Friedrich, Corot, Monet or Cezanne, each in their own way sharing an obsession with the genre, though, as the artist Merlin James points out: ‘Rhodes’ world is odder, more synthetic and unlikely’. But, as this retrospective exhibition reveals, all Rhodes’ landscapes are small, modest and representational, so what exactly makes them so odd? […]