Born in Lisbon in 1927. Between 1944 and 1948 he attended the Architecture Course. In the area of training in painting, he was part of the “Group of Independents” in Porto, where he exhibited, together with Fernando Lanhas and Júlio Resende, at the 1st. Salon of Abstract and Independent Art. Between 1948 and 1954, he attended the Schools of Fine Arts in Toulouse, Grenoble and the Paris School Ateliers Zavaoni, as well as the Grand Chaumière, in the area of painting and engraving. In Paris, he set up a ceramics workshop and dedicated himself to graphic arts. In 1954, in the city of Beira, he worked in the areas of architecture, decoration, painting, sculpture and graphic arts, leaving numerous works in Manica and Zambézia. In 1962, he settled in Lourenço Marques and began working as a journalist. In 1964 he won the execution of a large mural panel at BNU. He received a scholarship from the French Government in Paris (1950/52); from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation at the University of London (1970/72) and from the Polish People's Socialist Republic in Warsaw (1979/80).
