<p>"At seven years old, Royo would spend the day frantically drawing and painting. It was already clear to him that his goal in life was to paint at all hours given to him, to think only of painting, of light, form and material. And today, he continues to dedicate all of this time to painting the Mediterranean light of Valencia, the city that saw his birth and marked his way of seeing, of doing, of creating.</p> <p>His artistic training began early, nearly as early a his vocation. Throughout his childhood, he received private classes in drawing and painting in the studios of the most established artists of the city until he was old enough to enroll in the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos in Valencia. </p> <p>Following this, Royo began a new stage of his training, self-taught, but no less exhaustive, undertaking study trips to the most important museums of Europe to soak up all the knowledge of the classics. The Prado and Velazques, Ribera, Bonnard, Caravaggio and Kokoschka were to become his best school and best Masters, and the result of all these yeas is an incredibly extensive pictorial work dedicated to the mastery of daring marked by chiaroscuro and orthodox technique.</p> <p>Royo paints all he sees, everything that he has within reach, and what is closest to him is his wife, Margarita. Through her, Royo found himself being drawn into a fascination for the female world and its aesthetic, a fascination that continues to show itself through the faces among others, of Lucia (his daughter), or Maria (family friend and Royo's model from his infancy). It is always women that the painter has closest around him, women who share his daily life, who can transmit the message of the artist with just one look.</p> <p>The tranquility and well-being through which Royo's daily life moves has produced the opposite effect on his professional trajectory. From the seventies on, success has come vertiginously, first in Valencia, followed immediately by all Spain, then Europe. The enchantment of the Mediterranean, modelled by the intelligence and virtuosity of Royo, also seduced the Japanese market, and afterwards the South American, but it has been above all his success in the U.S. that has consolidated this artist as one of the key artistic figures of our epoch." L. Mateu, Writer and art critic.</p>