Beatriz Dapena was born in Madrid in 1972, and has a degree in fine arts from Seville University. She has exhibited her oil paintings in Seville and in Fuerteventura, where she won several painting awards, and she continues to exhibit her paintings today. She decided to widen her artistic studies and moved to Wales in the United Kingdom for five years, where she studied illustration at the University of North Wales. The same year she completed her degree she was awarded the Award in Illustration and Innovation at the annual New Designers exhibition in London. She later returned to the Sierra Norte near Madrid, where she still lives. Her work has been displayed in El Escorial, and in the city of Madrid in such prestigious places as the Sala Pons and Serrano.