[1] In 1937, he went to Paris[2] and studied with the French master Pierre Daguet an impressionist style similar to Van Gogh.
That same year, he travelled to the United States and France, returning to Bogotá in 1949 to establish the first stained glass workshop in Colombia with French artist Jean Crotti.
[4] For a decade, he struggled with his art, but after a vacation to Machu Picchu in Peru, he began producing geometric abstractions.
Praise from his contemporaries[3] led him to move to Mexico in 1956, where he studied engraving with Isidoro Ocampo at Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado "La Esmeralda".
[1] He lived in India for 10 years in the 1980s studying yoga[1] and then returned to Malaga, Spain,[8] where he continued to paint and took up sculpting as well.