Education
He studied in the University of the Philippines, Manila as a Ramon Roces Publication Scholar in 1947. The following year he transferred to the University of Santo Tomas, he studied fine arts with a major in painting. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in 1951.
Career
While studying at the university he was also an art editor for the university newspaper The Varsitarian. Being a young artist, Navarro was very passionate to create a new ways of art He experimented different kinds of painting using oil, acrylic, watercolor.
He also tried making sculpture and mixed media.
He uses the "incision painting" this method is applied on the stop surface by carving out the artist’s desired pattern on the stone materials and layering paint or plaster on the stone surface.