RAUL ISIDRO was the TOYM (Ten Outstanding Young Men) awardee in 1979 in the field of Fine Arts. Armed with a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts (1965) from the University of Santo Tomas, Isidro joined the faculty of the Philippine Women's University wherein he taught for nine years, and was appointed the director of Fine Arts in 1975. He was a former president of the Art Association of the Philippines. During his decade-long stay in Hay ward (east of San Francisco), California, Isidro was the only Asian member of the Hay ward Arts Council.
After decades in the art scene, Isidro’s audience remains guaranteed of his unswerving dedication to abstraction. A calm, rhythmical coherence invigorates his works- Isidro makes certain that he never overloaded the image. And in the expanse of his art practice, Isidro is much too inexhaustible an artist to arrive at a turning point. By no means looking back, he pursues His own route.
