Carol Mary Rhodes (7 April 1959 – 4 December 2018) was a Scottish artist known for paintings and drawings of landscapes and marked by human intervention.

[4] Although Rhodes could not adapt to the country's cold climate—she contracted hypothermia at one point—[4] she remained while her parents returned to India though she spent her summer and Christmas holidays in Bengal.

[1] She was a committee member of the Transmission Gallery from 1986 to 1988 and co-founded the Glasgow Free University with the writers Alasdair Gray and James Kelman in 1987.

[1] She was keen to return to painting and in 1990, she found the opportunity when fellow painter Rowan Mace offered to share a studio room at Tramway art centre in Glasgow.

Rhodes focussed on man-made landscapes composed of industrial estates, quarries, fields, power stations, reservoirs, depots, car parks and airports.

[1][3] She took a Scottish Arts Council (SAC) residency in Slovenia in 1995 and exhibited in a show that toured to Zagreb as the Croatian War of Independence came to an end.

[2] A solo exhibition of Rhodes occurred the Tramway Project Room in 2000 and a mid-career prospective on the painter took place at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art from 2007 to 2008.

[3] Her works were further exhibited at the Metropolitan Arts Centre in Belfast in 2017,[3] and much of it was reproduced in a monograph edited by Andrew Mummery and written by Lynda Morris and Moira Jeffrey was launched in 2018.

[3] Jeffrey, in her obituary of Rhodes in The Herald, described the painter as "tall, austerely beautiful, charismatic and soft-spoken" and a person who "embodied the life of the independent artist and determined dedication to her chosen path.

[8] Tom Lubbock in The Independent wrote the viewpoint and the semi-fictional approach Rhodes employed was "the opposite of a gimmick: an idea that bestows great freedom of operation.

"[12] The New York Times' Ken Johnson observed that in her works "roads cut straight or wind across the rectangle, dividing broad areas textured to resemble agricultural fields, forests, sand or bodies of water.