Royo was educated in the classical style. Born in Valencia with the already defined destiny of a
painter, he studied with the best teachers in his city, until he was old enough to enroll in the
San Carlos Superior School of Fine Arts. He completed his studies traveling to the great museums
of the world, soaking up the classic masters such as Velázquez, Vermeer and Goya, and the
Impressionist masters. These influences have marked his artistic development to the point of
becoming him in a master of post-impressionism, heir to Renoir, Bonnard or Monet.
The decisive change in his painting and in his life will come when the artist and his family
decide to move his home to the countryside. Among the pine trees, Royo builds the house that
will bring light and color to his work, which will be an exact replica of his iconography and
vice versa. However, the essence of Mediterranean culture required him, with increasing
insistence, to paint the sea which, from ancient Greece to Sorolla, had been the emblem of so
many teachers and thinkers. Royo found his second paradise in Mallorca, where a maelstrom of
rocks, pines and salty blues have forced him to move there every summer to paint and
contemplate.
The tranquility in which Royo's daily life takes place produces the opposite effect on his
professional career, in which, starting in the seventies, successes follow one another in a
dizzying manner, first in Spain, then throughout Europe. The Mediterranean charm modeled by
Royo's virtuosity also seduced the Japanese market and later the South American market, but it
has been, above all, the success in the United States that has consolidated this artist as one
of the key artistic figures of our time.
His special series of works, in which Royo explores new formats, materials and brushstrokes
(Ingrávidos, Génesis, Sagittas, Harem, Mujeres, Equus or Essence) have been exhibited in Museums
such as the Coral Spring Museum (Miami), the Diocesan Museum ( Barcelona), Haggim Museum in
Stockton (California), Artrium Ginebra, Museu Miramar (Sitges), Palau de la Música (Valencia),
Almudín de Valencia, Palacio de los Serrano (Ávila).
His impeccable painting technique, his mastery of drawing and the extreme feeling reflected in
the light and color of his works have made Royo an indispensable painter in the best collections
in the world. The Mediterranean passion is experienced in his paintings, but also the mastery
and rigor of someone who never stops surpassing himself in technique and mastery of his craft.
