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Vicente Romero Redondo was born in 1956 in Madrid as the eldest of four sons. Due to the work of his father, he grew up in many different towns all over Spain. The family moved back to Madrid when he was 15 years old. Already during his childhood his parents thought that he would dedicate his life to painting, as his caricatures of schoolmates and teachers were famous in every school where he studied and one could rarely see him without a pencil and a notepad in his hands.
His parents always understood and supported his artistic ambition; in fact only one of his brothers is not dedicated to art. (The other 2 are musicians.) After school, Romero achieved his dream: He started to study at the High School for Art "San Fernando," the most prestigious art school in Spain. (Salvador Dali studied there from 1922 to 1926.) During the first years he dedicated all his time to sculpture, but he realized that only by painting he could express all the sensibility he possessed and needed to transmit. He graduated with special honors in 1982.
Then he spent several years working in the street, which was not the most comfortable, but surely the most efficient way for perfecting his technique. He painted pastel portraits in coast villages of the mainland and the islands of Tenerife, Majorca and Ibiza.
At the end of the eighties, Romero and his wife settled down at the Costa Brava. It was in this region, the birthplace of Dali, where a new stage of his artistic life began. The light of the Mediterranean, his skills, his sensibility, the wonderful landscape, the house with his patio where he lived and the beauty of the models - all these were perfect conditions to change his paintings, and finally he succeeded in converting intimate situations of life into the leitmotif of his art.
A selection of works can be found here on our website:
http://www.petleys.co.uk/works.html
His parents always understood and supported his artistic ambition; in fact only one of his brothers is not dedicated to art. (The other 2 are musicians.) After school, Romero achieved his dream: He started to study at the High School for Art "San Fernando," the most prestigious art school in Spain. (Salvador Dali studied there from 1922 to 1926.) During the first years he dedicated all his time to sculpture, but he realized that only by painting he could express all the sensibility he possessed and needed to transmit. He graduated with special honors in 1982.
Then he spent several years working in the street, which was not the most comfortable, but surely the most efficient way for perfecting his technique. He painted pastel portraits in coast villages of the mainland and the islands of Tenerife, Majorca and Ibiza.
At the end of the eighties, Romero and his wife settled down at the Costa Brava. It was in this region, the birthplace of Dali, where a new stage of his artistic life began. The light of the Mediterranean, his skills, his sensibility, the wonderful landscape, the house with his patio where he lived and the beauty of the models - all these were perfect conditions to change his paintings, and finally he succeeded in converting intimate situations of life into the leitmotif of his art.
A selection of works can be found here on our website:
http://www.petleys.co.uk/works.html
