The Critic and author, Horace Shipp, wrote in Apollo in April 1960, reviewing the Leicester Galleries exhibition “The results are excellent. Rogers’ normal landscape art can be movingly lovely, as witness the Plough: into the Sun in this exhibition . . . . In these pictures of a natural phenomenom which has stirred his imagination and given to his hand a subject spelling freedom of brushstroke and rhythmic composition, he has achieved something in the romantic yet literal English tradition where truth and beauty meet.” The Times art critic writing on 7 March 1960 described the . . . . “beautiful, rich autumn twilight” and the . . . “suggestion of mystery” of this landscape.