Castle Fine Art, Mayfair
24 Bruton Street
London
W1J 6QQ
United Kingdom
Contemporary Spanish figurative painter Royo uses his exuberant brushstroke technique to achieve intense luminosity and a sense of great vitality on the canvas. Capturing the light and colour of southern Spain and the Mediterranean islands of Mallorca and Ibiza, he portrays demure young women in flowing garments, set against lush backgrounds of flowers or the vivid blue sea. He explores the mythical, the maternal, the sensual, and the weightless human form escaping its earthbound existence.
The forthcoming exhibition 50 years A Master: Mediterraneo Series, marks Royo's latest pictorial obsession. Like the Impressionist painters before him, Royo creates portraits and landscapes of great sophistication and lyrical sensibility. What really sets Royo's art apart from his contemporaries is his portrayal of colour. As the Former Director of the Prado Museum, Felipe Garin LLombart, beautifully notes in an essay dedicated to the artist in 2010 about the artist paintings:
' it is a homage to colour - to colour as a vital necessity, as indispensable for life, making it possible to fell happiness, sorrow, strength or driving one to act - colour duly ordered within each work of art, the very opposite of chaos and disorder, its antithesis.â€
Royo has been painting relentlessly since the age of seven, when he learned to apply his artistic genius at the prestigious Royal Academy of San Carlos in Valencia. He continues to be influenced by many historical periods and draws inspiration from his home town in the beautiful Valencian countryside. Royo's elegant paintings have attracted a huge following and he has exhibited throughout his native Spain, across Europe, Japan and the United States. He has had several important commissions by prominent figures, which include portraits for the High Ministry of Justice in Spain and a portrait of his Former Majesty King Juan Carlos I of Spain. Royo was also awarded the prestigious Rotary Personality of the year award in 2009.
Castle Fine Art, Mayfair is incredibly proud to present this fantastic collection of paintings to the public. 50 years A Master: Mediterraneo Series can be seen at Castle Fine Art, Mayfair from 15th October.