He studied law in London. He worked as a solicitor until 1938, at which time he turned exclusively to painting. He was self-taught. He learnt from the art of the past and the art of his time through private study and frequent visits to museums and galleries. He developed a productive dialogue with the pursuits of Modernist movements, as well as with the works of older artists, primarily El Greco. He also studied ancient, Byzantine, Gothic and folk art, going on to shape his own distinctive artistic language. His subject matter is dominated by the human form, landscapes with buildings, and compositions featuring religious content or topics from contemporary historical reality.

During the 1950s, he was particularly active and was the first Cypriot artist to have shown his work outside Cyprus. He presented his work in solo exhibitions in Nicosia (1950, 1953, 1955, 1959, 1963), Oxford (1950), London (1953), Paris (1955), Milan (1956), Basel (1956), Jerusalem (1959) and Athens (1960). In 1999, the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus organised a large retrospective of his works.