Born in Lisbon in 1956. He attended the École Supérieur de Beaux-Arts in Paris. Alternates academic studies of painting with research and practice in graphic design.

In 1986 he graduated in Fine Arts Painting at ESBAL, and in 1988 he graduated in Painting from the Facultat Complutense de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain. In the same year it is selected for the Talleres de Arte Actual of the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, where she works with Jose Luis Alexanco and Jose Guerrero.

In 1994 he completed his doctoral studies in Painting at the Facultat Complutense de Bellas Artes in Madrid, on New Pictorial Matters, with Jose Guerrero and Lucio Muñoz as advisors. In 2006, he obtained a Master's degree in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, with the Phenomenological and Hermeneutic aspects, at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon, with the thesis on Mark Rothko, Os Tempos da Cor.< /p>

It also develops work in the areas of interior architecture, communication, graphic and equipment design, as well as in the area of jewelry. She received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has been exhibiting individually since the 1980s, in Portugal and abroad.