He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal, with the guidance of Alfred Pellan, amongst others, and became a notorious figure in the new wave of artists that Quebec was to produce in the era of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
[2] After his return to Montreal in 1956, he took part in a collective exhibition at the Denyse Delrue gallery, with other young painters of his generation.
All through the 1960s, 1970s and part of the 1980s, he remained faithful to that form of painting until a year stay in Paris (1982), when he slowly turned to a more fluid and free style of expression.
A prolific artist, he also produced many sculptures, designed symbols and logos, such as the one for the Université de Montréal.
The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec[4] held an important retrospective of his paintings and sculptures in 2001.