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 Superfair 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 The Huts, Arts To Hearts Project, Clover + Bee, Art Seen, Create Magazine, and ArtScene+.
About Rachel
I've always been fascinated by the female form and its power to express emotion. By bringing together fabric and silhouette, I explore how movement and stillness interact, creating a tension that reflects the complexity of human experience.
My latest series looks more closely at the complexity of being, with each piece capturing a moment in time and exploring the balance between vulnerability and strength, the shedding of past identities, and the emergence of a more authentic self. She, whoever she may be, is at the heart of my work. I am less interested in her as a figure and more in the space she occupies and what remains after she disappears. Existing in the in between. This space feels the most honest, because in some way we all exist between what we hold on to and what we must let go of.
Alongside these figurative works, my abstract paintings often begin with remnants left behind in the studio. Fragments of paint scraped from palettes or surfaces after a piece is finished. Rather than discarding them, I build from them. What begins as something incidental becomes a new composition shaped by movement and instinct. In this way, the abstracts carry the same themes as the figures. Transformation, renewal, and the idea that something broken apart can still find its way into a new form.
I am also interested in the fleeting nature of time. The weight of a breath and how a feeling can remain in a room even after the moment has passed. Each painting becomes a conversation between stillness and motion.
Ultimately, the work is an invitation to step into those quiet moments that shape us in ways we often only understand later. In that space, there is beauty, power, and truth. Each piece reflects this unfolding. An invitation to enter the space in between, where we soften, shift, and become.
“She, whoever she may be, is at the heart of my work.”
I am less interested in her as a figure and more in the space she occupies and what remains after she disappears. Existing in the in between. This space feels the most honest, because in some way we all exist between what we hold on to and what we must let go of.”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2026 “ECHOES & CONVERSATIONS” Solo Art Exhibition at Fashion Interiors Manila, Philippines
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
“WOMEN’S MONTH Exhibit” Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
2023 “POP OF PINK Art Exhibit” Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
“EMERGING WOMAN ARTIST” International Juried Online Group Show for Shortlisted Artists Arts To Hearts Project Art Prize
“EMERGENCE” Online Exhibition with Visionary Art Collective
“STORIES TO BE TOLD’ Online Group Exhibition with Art Mums United
“9th ANNIVERSARY EXHIBIT’ UAAP Group Exhibition, Galerya Amalia, LRI Plaza, Philippines
2022 “POP OF PINK Art Exhibit” Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
“HIRAYA: A Live, Love, Local Exhibit” Crimson Hotel, Manila, Philippines
“GAZE” Online Group exhibition with Art To Hearts Project
2021 “OVEREXPOSED” Online Group Exhibition with Visionary Projects x Legion Paper
“MARKS WE MAKE” Online Group Exhibition with The Curator’s Salon
“MIRROR IN THE DARK” Online Group Exhibition with Visionary Art Collective
“INTRINSIC NATURE” Online Group Exhibition with The Curator’s Salon
“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
ART FAIRS
2026 Superfair Art Fair, San Francisco, USA
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
PRESS AND INTERVIEWS
2023 “Create Magazine” Anniversary Issue 35
2022 ”Arts To Hearts Magazine“ Issue 1
”The Huts Magazine “ Issue 6
”ART SEEN - The Curator’s Salon Magazine “ Volume 3, February 2022 - Your Creative Diaries
”CLOVER + BEE Magazine” Issue 2 - January 2022
2021 “ART SEEN - The Curator’s Salon Magazine “ Volume 1, June 2021
Arts to Hearts Project - Artist Spotlight with Charuka Arora
The Curator’s Salon Interview with Gita Joshi of The Curator’s Salon
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
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