Griselda Ferrendez was born in the city of Barcelona, ​​a cosmopolitan and open city. From herbalcony she could contemplate the sea as well as watch the passing freight trains on their way tothe mercantile port. At a young age, Griselda was bedridden from heart disease that left her withonly books and her balcony view to pass the time. She remembers looking through books ofpainters and loved the way paintings transported her to a world of fantasy through color and line. This early impression led her to want to become a painter herself. From 1972 to 1975 shestudied at the Massana Official School of Arts and Crafts in Barcelona, considered at that timean avant-garde art school. At the age of 18, she began to work in the painting studio whereSpanish hyperrealist artist Jesus Navarro served as the artistic director. They later fell in love,married, and had 3 children. She proudly describes each child as gifted in the arts as well. Since her first exhibition in 1978, Ferrendez has not stopped painting or experimenting withpaint. For a time, she even taught classes on Art Theory at the Tres en Raya school inCastelldefels, Barcelona. She has worked with pastels, acrylic, marble dust, oil, organic matter,collage, but throughout her experimentations, oil paint has always been her favorite, a materialshe describes as the “noblest and the most multifaceted.” Her new series of paintings she describes as Realism framed in Pop Aesthetic. Utilizing the boldcolors and lines of advertising and marketing as the backdrop, she positions her female figures asoblivious to the world around them. She describes her work as in many ways, a love letter tocity life and her female figures as a mirror image to daily life. Artistically, in this new series, sheis inspired by the tensions between the lines that create the composition and the emotiveconnotations of each form: wavy (softness, freedom, harmony ...), horizontal (peace, rest, calm).Through these works, she can challenge herself through the various techniques as well aspsychological questions that arise when combining different forms of art, the underlyingquestions that remain when working in realism, abstraction, as well as pop.