SANDRA W. ROPER

SOUTH Carolina artist

Sandra W. Roper was an art major at the University of South Carolina before her path led her to a career in advertising. But nearly 20 years ago, the Greenville native left the corporate world to stay at home with her two boys. “I wanted to go to all of their ball games,” she says. “Then I started painting again, and things just evolved from there—and I never missed any ball games.”

Painting in watercolors, Roper finds inspiration in the creativity and brilliance of Charleston’s eclectic styles of architecture and from the passion, perseverance and dedication people have for their work and traditions. The artist is currently working on a series of paintings that seek to preserve Lowcountry ways of life and the traditions that trace back several generations. Finding the ordinary to be extraordinary, Roper believes that sharing stories through her paintings is a way to honor the shrimpers, oyster shuckers, Gullah basket makers and other craftspeople and tradespeople that give the South such richness.

Roper is part owner of Lowcountry Artists Gallery in Charleston. New releases and giclée prints can be found on her website.

SANDRA W. ROPER

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