As an artist, Fabio painted his first canvases when he was still a teenager. But it was in 1997 that he studied "The History of Arts", and, as a self-taught one, he actually started painting.
He rented a studio in a suburb of his hometown where he met
Chrisalida Boerger, a renowned interior designer, who loved his work, became his agent and worked with him for five fruitful years. During this time he had many group and solo exhibitions at Ms. Boerger's
'The color of Minas'galery in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.