Born in 1955 in Araraquara, São Paulo. He has lived and worked in Portugal since 1991. He has held individual and collective exhibitions since 1977, in several countries, namely Brazil, Portugal, Italy, France, Canada, USA, England, Spain, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, Cape Verde, Beirut, New York and the United Arab Emirates. The artist, whose main characteristic is: the naïf style of his paintings, he studied at Zé Cordeiro and won some awards, including the 2nd; Prize at the II Intertional Femmale Artist's Art Exhibition in Stockholm, Sweden and the Jury Prize at the Naïf Painting Salon, in 2004, at the Casino from Estoril.