 He was awarded the national art prize by the Portuguese art critics’ association in 1984 and honoured with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit by Portuguese President, Mário Soares, in 1988.He was commissioned to decorate a wall in the new building of the Azorean Parliament in Horta.He spent several months in Horta, installing a series of fifty-four heads in bas-relief representing Azorean citizens.