The following year, in 1949, his parents emigrated to Canada where he studied, initially in Quebec and then after after 1956, in Ontario where he began to study painting. His work was first exhibited in 1968 in Oakville, Ontario. He traveled to Spain in 1970 and remained to live and continue his work. Many exhibitions followed in Barcelona, Madrid, Paris and elsewhere in Europe as well as both in Toronto and Montreal where he has lived since 1996.