Painter, printmaker and sculptor, born in Volosko in 1953. He studied at the Faculty of Education in Rijeka, and in 1983 he enrolled in painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice, in the class of Emilio Vedova. After graduating, he spent a year in Kiel, Germany, as a guest artist at the Künstlerhaus. At the 46th Venice Biennale he represented Croatia together with Martina Kramer and Goran Petercol.

He is the founder of the Veprinac–Učka Centre for Multimedia Research and a member of the Croatian Freelance Artists’ Association (HZSU), the Croatian Association of Artists – Istria (HDLU Istra) and the Gorski Kotar Sculpture Workshop. He received the City of Rijeka Award (1996) and the Order of Danica Hrvatska with the image of Marko Marulić for special merit in culture (1997). His works are held in numerous public and private collections in Croatia and abroad. Since 1997 he has lived and worked in the village of Vela Učka in Učka Nature Park.

In 2021 he exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale as the only Croatian artist in the exhibition “TIME SPACE EXISTENCE” at Palazzo Mora. At the 43rd Symposium, in 2021, he carved his distinctive forms, which he usually creates in wood, out of stone combined with iron.