RITA TING HOPPER
Rita grew up watching her grandfather, an accomplished landscape artist, paint in California. At 14 years old, she started Chinese brush painting lessons in Hong Kong and continued painting throughout her life. In college, her favorite class was art history in Heidelberg Germany. She immersed herself in many museums while studying French in Paris. She pursued law and practiced as a litigator in Los Angeles and the Washington DC area for many years. She later joined the startup world including in-house counsel roles. After an open-heart surgery (at an unexpectedly “young age” of 52), Rita focused on watercolor florals with happy colors. She spends much time in St. Michaels, Maryland, as reflected in her artwork of boats and oysters. For Rita, “A painting captures a mood, a moment, and even one’s soul when all other forms of communication fail.”Rita and her husband, Michael, currently live in Arlington Virginia with 2 grown sons recently graduated from UVA and luckily gainfully employed.