... In Roper's dreamlike painting washes of cobalt and ultramarine blues, verdant and leafy greens, toffee apple reds, gamboge and cadmium yellows – an entire liturgy of sensuous colour – beckons, inviting us into a luminous and enchanted world somewhere between reality and fantasy.

… tales of drama, of excitement, and also of disguise and revelation. Something that is unknown about oneself, and perhaps about others too, comes to light. There are surprises and delights, but also disappointments and disasters foretold. In these drawings it remains unclear which.