She was the founder and Chairwoman Emeritus of the Delfina Foundation, an independent not-for-profit organisation devoted to supporting artists through a residency programme and exhibition space in London.
[3][4] Her father, an engineer, was the founder of the company known today as Acciona[5] and her mother came from a progressive family linked to the Institución Libre de Enseñanza.
[5] She moved to Oxford to learn English and stayed at the household of Robert Mortimer, a scholar and priest – who later would become the Bishop of Exeter – and his wife, who tutored her.
[7] The resultant album was Rock Bottom, released in 1974, which included musical performances by Ivor Cutler, Hugh Hopper, Richard Sinclair, Laurie Allan, Mike Oldfield and Fred Frith, and was produced by Pink Floyd's Nick Mason.
[5] Four years later, it moved to a bigger space in Bermondsey Street, a former chocolate factory that after being refurbished provided accommodation, studio rooms, a gallery and a canteen where artists could eat for £1.
[4][7][12] After the end of her second marriage, Entrecanales withdrew from her activity as a patron for some time but then in 2005, during a trip to Syria with her close friend and international human rights lawyer Mark Muller, she decided to resume her work supporting artists.
[17] In 2016, a Spanish association of female entrepreneurs (Asociación Mujer Siglo XXI, based in Bilbao) also gave her an award for her patronage work.