Patnem, Goa
Studies Biology in Liverpool at North East Liverpool Technical College from 1963 to 1967.
Becomes interested in painting. Moves to Paris. Studies History of Art and Archeology at École du Louvre and École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne).
Starts to paint. From 1968 to 1972 is forced to do 4 years of compulsory military service 2 years in Portugal and 2 years in the Cape Verde Islands.
Back from Africa concludes his Master's Degree in Painting at the University of Lisbon (Faculty of Arts).
Goes back to Paris on a scholarship awarded by the Gulbenkian Foundation (painting) from 1976 to 1978. Is awarded a new scholarship by the same foundation to paint in Lisbon from 1987 to 1989.
AICA (Association Internationalle des Critiques d'Art) by the art critics Dore Ashton, René Berger and Sílvia Chicó.
III Exhibition of Fine Arts, Gulbenkian Foundation, 1987
Bicentenary of the Ministry of Finance, 1988
Biennale of Lagos, 1990
BANIF Bank, 2003
Public Works
Tapestry (12 square meters) for the Bank CGD
Mural in tiles (220 square meters) in the city of Covilhã, (Portugal), 2004
Represented
In the main National collections and Museums in Lisbon and Oporto.
Illustration
Covers for several poetry books and for "Pour un Morale de L'Ambiguité", Simone de Beauvoir, Éditions Gallimard, Paris.
One man Exhibitions
46 (from 1975 to 2011).
Group Exhibitions
119 (from 1972 to 2009) in Portugal, Caracas (Venezuela), Paris, Lund/Sweden (Museum of Modern Art), Belgrade, Lyon, Azores, Madrid, Niterói (Brazil) and Tokyo (Museum of Modern Art).
Bibliography
Two monographs (1983 and 2009). Hundreds of articles by the main portuguese art critics.