The beginning of her dedication to art was fortuitous. For her own enterainment, she made drawings upon which nobody placed any value until, by chance, in 1966 she met the painter Pedro Pruna who, on discovering her abilities, invited her to his workshop for a time. There she began painting in oils and since then has never ceased to paint.

With time, and through intermediaries, she began to sell her work to collectors.
She didn’t make herself known as a painter and since she signed SALLENT for many years it was thought that she was a man. It was JOAN A. MARAGALL, Sala Parés owner, who, in 1980, organized her first painting exhibition. Twenty eight paintings were exhibited, of which twenty four were sold. That exhibition gave her the oportunity to meet some of her earlier purchasers and had the satisfaction of discovering that three of them were friends of hers who didn’t know that she was a painter.

Shortly before this exhibition, also by chance, she met the sculptor JOAN REBULL who encouraged her to try sculpting. She began to sculpt a life-size torso of her daughter and she became fascinated with the recreation of the form. To her amazement she also discovered how she could breathe life into stone and bronze. Due to this, with her natural enthusiasm, she gave herself entirely to sculpting.

And so it was that in 1982 (two years and two months after her first exhibition of paintings) she held an exhibition, also in Sala Parés, of her sculptures. She presented nineteen works, all life-size in marble, Calatorao stone (Aragón), Tavertine, Ulldecona stone (Catalonia), Alabaster and Bronze. JOAN A. MARAGALL himself introduced her catalogue saying that it was a surprising exhibition given that it was not common for an artist-sculptor to present a first exhibition so numerous and representative with large-scale works, in which the many difficulties of such an ambitious project had been overcome. He also said that from then on she should be considered a new and clear asset of our arts. This was a body of work created over the previous three years with no prior reference.
In 1992 she held and exhibition in Sala Nonell in Barcelona and in Sala Alcolea in Madrid, a collection of oil paintings, some large-scale, which was highly successful both critically and commercially. In 1995 she held an exhibition in the "Galería de Arte Jaime III" in Mallorca. In 1995 she also exhibited her works in "Sala 4 Cantons" and "Sala Vayreda" in Olot. In 1997 in "Galería de Arte Castelló 120" of Madrid. She has also participated in numerous joint exhibitions. In 2003 she exhibited again in "Sala Parés" in Barcelona, presenting a monographic theme devoted to nudes of 30 oil paintings.