Charo Pradas studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Active since the 1980s, she belongs to a group of painters who broke into the artistic scene of that decade. Practising mostly painting, but also drawing and sculpture, her abstract compositions can be identified by a particular use of colour and repetitive geometric strokes, especially the circle, which is her most recurring form, giving rise in the nineties to the so-called 'orphic paintings'. While colour brings depth, the repetitive forms provide movement and intensity, resulting in gestural, vertiginous and extremely dynamic paintings, seemingly aimed at a collective and individual unconscious. Among her influences, we find such disparate referents as the chance mathematical theories of Henri Poincaré and horror movies, but also the decomposition of landscape and elements of everyday life, which the artist conveys with her language of circular lines and bands.

She has exhibited regularly since the 1980s in different Spanish galleries. In 1989, she had her first retrospective in the Museo de Teruel, and later, in 2008, at the Sala Juana Francés of the Zaragoza City Council. Her work is included in the collections of Artium Museo de Arte Contemporáneo del País Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz; Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona; Banc Sabadell; and MACBA, Barcelona, among others.