 Until he was twenty years old he lived in Lourenço Marques (now Maputo), Mozambique and in 1974, after the Carnation revolution, he went to Porto, Portugal.It was there that, in 1982, he concluded his High Graduation in Drawing (under the direction of the master Sá Nogueira) at the Cooperativa Árvore (ESAP).He also graduated and specialized in Wheel, Raku and Glazes at La Bisbal Ceramic School, in Catalonia.