Being born in Bordighera he was interested in the artistic production of all painters who lived and worked in his hometown such as Claude Monet, Pompeo Mariani Friederich von Kleudgen, Hermann Nestel, Giuseppe Ferdinando Piana, etc.
In 1926 he was commissioned to create a painting for the Church of the Immaculate Conception or Terrasanta of Bordighera, entitled "Death of Saint Joseph".
After returning to his hometown he opened his workshop in Via Vittorio Emanuele 61 and after some time, in the same premises, an art school for "Sunday painters".
In 1950, he founded the painting prize "5 Bettole" and in 1952 he organized the first European exhibition of Pollock, Arshile Gorky, Man Ray with the works of Guggenheim Museum.
In 1951 he obtained from the municipality, a room in the Palazzo del Parco for a small school which then became a more ambitious project, the "Accademia Riviera" to which his name will be added later.