Who is Vicente Romero

I am a Spanish painter born in Madrid in 1956. During this time, it was not unreasonable for a modest family to be able to send their children to university for higher education. This is my case and in 1982 I finished my degree in sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid. Very soon after, the necessity of survival forced me to paint portraits on the streets of the Spanish peninsular coasts, as well as in Ibiza and Tenerife islands. Those years of semi-nomadic life were moving me away from sculpture, an activity that requires to be living in a fixed location. On the other hand, all those years served me to get familiar with the pastel technique, which I had never used before and in which I have found the medium that best suits my sensitivity. Since 1.987 I settled down on the Costa Brava, a peaceful and radiant place whose great luminosity has deeply transformed my vision of light and color.

From a very early age, I was attracted to the inner world of women, it’s a kind of mystery that makes me feel a great fascination. I don’t believe in art which is too conceptual nor in virtuosity. Art without emotional communication is very respectable but I’m not interested in this. The fact that iconographically my paintings have a marked “retro”or anachronistic flavour, it is not due to a desire to revive old times but to the fact that the functional clothing style imposed since long time ago until now, is not at all attractive to me from a plastic point of view.