Nephew and follower of Segundo Matilla, Joaquín Terruella was also a disciple of Santiago Rusiñol. With the latter, he made a trip to Italy in 1923, in addition to spending a season working together in Aranjuez. He also painted in Paris and Palma de Mallorca. He exhibited individually for the first time in the disappeared Goya room in Barcelona in 1916, and since then he showed his work in other rooms in Barcelona, such as the Parés and Gaspar, and also in Paris, Madrid, Palma, Zaragoza, Bordeaux, and Biarritz. In 1956, he held his last exhibition at the Busquets Gallery in Barcelona. Since then, his work has been present in different collective and anthological exhibitions, such as the one held in the Gothsland room in Barcelo...