1920年京都府生まれ。独学で南画を学んだ後、洋画へ転向。1952年に吉原治良に師事し、1954年に具体美術協会の結成に参加、解散まで在籍した。製鉄所のクレーン技師として働きながら制作に励み、ペインティングナイフによる重層的な点描画や、おがくずやマッチ棒を混ぜた物質性の強い油彩、さらに布と糸による縫い込み作品などを制作。緻密な手仕事を通して物質と平面の関係を鋭く問い続けた作家である。

Born in Kyoto Prefecture in 1920, he studied Southern painting on his own before switching to Western-style painting. In 1952, he studied under Yoshihara Jiro, and in 1954 participated in the founding of the Gutai Art Association, remaining a member until its dissolution. While working as a crane engineer at a steelworks, he devoted himself to his art, producing layered pointillism paintings made with a painting knife, highly materialistic oil paintings mixed with sawdust and matchsticks, and sewn works made from cloth and thread. He is an artist who has continued to sharply question the relationship between matter and the two-dimensional plane through his meticulous handiwork.