(b Caracas, 9 Aug 1946). Venezuelan painter and printmaker. He studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas ‘Cristóbal Rojas’, Caracas (1960–64), and at the Instituto de Diseño Gráfico and the Centro Gráfico del INCIBA, both in Caracas (1964–8). He also worked in the studios of Luisa Palacios and Luis Chacón (b 1927). From 1963 he exhibited in both national and international drawing and print exhibitions, notably at the Latin American Bienale at the Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas (1967). In the early 1970s his work distinguished itself from the styles then dominating Venezuelan art by its revaluation of the traditional pictorial themes of landscape and figurative representation that had been almost abandoned. He used simplified forms and images full of vigour and dazzling colours. Three of his works—Nocturnal (1973), View of Ávila from Sugar Avenue (1977) and Hills, Trees and the Dawn in the Valleys of Aragua (1980; all oil on canvas)—are held by the Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas.