Born in Lisbon, in 1940. In 1957, he enrolled in the Architecture course at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes de Lisboa and at the Sociedade Cooperativa de Gravadores Portugueses.

It was in the Engraving space that he held his first solo exhibition, in 1960. Shortly afterwards, he switched to the Painting course, which he attended until his death. At the beginning of the colonial war, in 1961, which led him to emigrate to Paris, he came into contact with North American art from the 50s and 60s, giving him an opportunity to learn about the American art of the 1950s and 1960s. classes at the Cinematographic Training Institute.

Returns definitively to Portugal in 1991. Receives the Calouste Gulbenkian Prize for illustration In 1986, he will be He won the Drawing Prize at the III General Exhibition of Plastic Arts of the same institution and, in 1988, received the AICA/SEC prize. He has held numerous exhibitions, including several retrospectives.