ABOUT RACHEL
For British-Filipina artist and interior architect Rachel Le Roux, painting is a process of renewal. Now based in Manila, she first trained at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London before spending over a decade in architecture and design. The same instincts she brings to interiors - balancing space, texture, and atmosphere - find their way into her paintings, making both practices feel like extensions of one another.
That dialogue comes through in two distinct threads. Her figurative paintings explore the body: its movement, the way fabric clings and falls, and the quiet stories hidden in its gestures. Her abstracts, meanwhile, often begin with scraps of paint left behind from those works, growing into compositions about energy, motion, and the idea that even fragments can become whole again. It’s in the space between figuration and abstraction that her sense of duality emerges, sometimes quiet and deliberate, other times raw and instinctive. For Rachel, painting is both a way to honour the female form and to reflect on the constant cycles of change and how something can be concealed, revealed, broken down, and rebuilt again.
Her work has been exhibited at The Holy Art Fair in London, the Superfine Art Fair in San Francisco, the South Arts Festival in Manila, Leon Gallery in Manila, and Altro Mondo Creative Space, and is held in private collections worldwide. Her practice has also been featured in The Huts, Arts To Hearts Project, Clover + Bee, Art Seen, and Create Magazine.
“MY ART COMES FROM A PLACE INSPIRED BY THE IDEA OF HOW TIME IS CEASELESS EVEN YOUR OWN LIFE FEELS LIKE IT IS AT A STANDSTILL. THE FIGURES I DRAW AND DRESSES I PAINT EXPRESS THE INTENSITY OF AN ORDINARY MOMENT THAT SUDDENLY BECOMES AN EXTRAORDINARY ONE JUST BY PAUSING IN THAT SURROUNDING CHAOS BUT IT IS WITHIN THAT PAUSE IS WHERE PEACE CAN BE FOUND
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A SANCTUARY THAT YOU FIND WITHIN YOUR SOUL, WITHIN YOURSELF - A PLACE THAT YOU HAVE TO DIG DEEP TO FIND AND HOLD ONTO”
WATCH THE MAKING OF THE EARLY STAGES “I GOT YOU, DARLING. YOU CAN NOW BE FREE”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 “METAMORPHOSIS: Unfolding and Transforming” Online Solo Art exhibition with Women United Arts Movement
2021 “ WHERE THE WILDFLOWERS GROW” Online Solo Art exhibition with Art Mums United
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Re(UNION)” Altro Mondo Creative Space, Manila, Philippines
2024 “WOMENS MONTH Exhibit” Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
2023 “POP OF PINK Art Exhibit” Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
2023 “EMERGING WOMAN ARTIST” International Juried Online Group Show for Shortlisted Artists Arts To Heats Project Art Prize
2023 “EMERGENCE” Online Exhibition with Visionary Art Collective
2023 “STORIES TO BE TOLD’ Online Group Exhibition with Art Mums United
2023 “9th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT’ UAAP Group Exhibition , Galerya Amalia, LRI Plaza, Philippines
2022 “POP OF PINK Art Exhibit” Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
2022 “HIRAYA: A Live, Love, Local Exhibit” Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
2021 “GAZE” Online Group exhibition with Art To Hearts Project
2021 “OVEREXPOSED” Online Group Exhibition with Visionary Projects x Legion Paper
2021 “MARKS WE MAKE” Online Group Exhibition with The Curator’s Salon
2021 “MIRROR IN THE DARK” Online Group Exhibition with Visionary Art Collective
2021 “INTRINSIC NATURE” Online Group Exhibition with The Curator’s Salon
2021 “TRANSLUCENT SOULS” Online Group Exhibition with Art Mums United
2020 2nd FilipinART Exhibit, Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
2019 Pop of Pink Art Exhibit, Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
2018 Passionately Pink , Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
2014 Faces Exhibition, A Space Gallery, Manila, Philippines
2012 Instant Doodles Exhibition, My Little Art Place Gallery, Manila, Philippines
PRESS and interviews
2023 “Create Magazine” Anniversary Issue 35
2022 ”Arts To Hearts Magazine“ Issue 1
2022 ”The Huts Magazine “ Issue 6
2022 ”ART SEEN - The Curator’s Salon Magazine “ Volume 3, February 2022 - Your Creative Diaries
2022 ”CLOVER + BEE Magazine” Issue 2 - January 2022
2021 “ART SEEN - The Curator’s Salon Magazine “ Volume 1, June 2021
2021 ”Arts to Hearts Project” - Artist Spotlight with Charuka Arora
2021 The Curator’s Salon Interview with Gita Joshi of The Curator’s Salon
2021 Art Mums United Interview with Mona Lerch of Art Mums United
CONTRIBUTING WRITER
2023 Women United Art Magazine Issue III + IV
2022 Women United Art Magazine Issue I + II
P O D C A S T
2022 Women United Art Podcast Takeover Episode
∙ Catharsis Through Music with Marina Elderton
∙ Owning Your Passions with Erica Paredes
∙ Building Bridges with Art with Arghavan Agida
PRIZES
2023 ARTS TO HEARTS PROJECT EMERGING WOMAN ARTIST- Shortlist Artist
2022 WOMAN UNITED ART PRIZE - Longlist Artist
2021 WOMAN UNITED ART PRIZE - Shortlist Artist
ART FAIRS
2025 Superfine Art Fair, San Francisco, USA
2023 The Holy Art Fair, London, England
2022 South Arts Festival, Crimson Hotel, Alabang Philippines
2019 South Arts Festival, Filinvest, Alabang Philippines
2018 South Arts Festival, Filinvest, Alabang Philippines
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