His major religious works, characterized by polychromed wood sculptures in an elegant Spanish Baroque style, are preserved in the Quito Cathedral and the Church of San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador, and in Popayán, Colombia.

His work was rediscovered in 1791 and championed by Eugenio Espejo, then the country's leading intellectual.

Among his predecessors was Lucas Barrionuevo (d. 1594) and among his mentors was Bernardo de Legarda (ca.

As a sculptor, he worked in both wood and marble, always within the prevailing Baroque style and with a religious motif.

He grouped figures in a manner that evokes painting as much as sculpture.