He joins the staff of Casa Pia in Lisbon in 1950, having been invited by the school’s board to become the designated Painting Teacher, job he holds until 1980.

In 1951/1952, he becomes vice president of the Board of the National Society of Fine Arts, and in 1974 he joins the Parallel Group, together with António Carmo, João Hogan, Querubim Lapa, Gil Teixeira Lopes amongst others.

His work is vast, showing oil painting as the predominant technique, even though he also produced drawings, water colours, ceramics, stained glass, engravings in various materials.

His art shows a large spectrum of colours - greys, blues, greens, ochers, briques, yellows, browns, reds – spread in complex structured patches on the canvas; his canvases, prepared by the artist himself, aware made of thick linen in which the application of paint enabled an embossed texture.

It is important to highlight the main topic areas, vast and diversified, which the artist explored in his life’s work: the male and female figure, the natural landscape and still lives.