[4] His works are in private collections inside and outside Panama, as well as in museums and banks, he has the merit of founding the first art school in David, Chiriquí.

[2] In 1947, fulfilling a personal wish, he traveled to Panama, his country of birth, later moved to Venezuela and exhibited successfully in Caracas and other cities.

He continued traveling and exhibiting in different Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Ecuador and Venezuela,[3] studied the colors of places he visited to create paintings in different styles, while perfecting his post-impressionist knife palette technique, which he would develop throughout his life.

[2] In David he founded the first Art School in June 1956,[1][3] years later he moved to Boquete, and met Doña Gertrudis Montenegro, with whom he married in 1959.

[2] His increasingly personal style, solving the volume and perspective by applying thick fillings directly on the canvas with great mastery, would make him go into the history of art in his country as "The Palette Knife Master",[2] he was an innovator in this technique.