About the Artist

Rachel Le Roux

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 Arts, and is held in private collections worldwide. Her practice has also been featured in Tatler, Lifestyle Asia, Manila Bulletin, Create Magazine, Arts To Hearts Project, and more.