Filadelfa Rodriguez

Filadelfa Rodriguez is a Filipina artist creating abstract works shaped by rhythm, emotion, and the organic movement of form. Her process often begins with loose sketches inspired by spontaneous visual flashes, intuitive forms, and imagined compositions. These fragments become the starting point from which her paintings unfold. Working primarily in oil and mixed media on canvas, she builds each piece slowly, layer by layer, guided by intuition rather than fixed ideas, until the balance feels right.

As a child, while others chased the sun, she found comfort indoors among scraps of paper and worn-down pencils. Hours passed as she drew faces, objects, and scenes from her restless imagination. Art became both play and quiet refuge, a space where her inner world could take form.

Today, her paintings explore the tension between stillness and momentum, softness and structure. Through organic forms and considered colour, she creates spaces in which viewers can pause, breathe, and experience a quiet sense of presence. She draws inspiration from Georgia O’Keeffe’s sensitivity to organic form, Helen Frankenthaler’s fluidity and colour relationships, Mark Rothko’s emotional use of colour and scale, and the symbolic depth of Salvador Dalí. To...

School of Visual Arts (SVA) - 2025
University of Hertfordshire (2018 - 2020)
De La Salle University - Dasmariñas (2006 - 2010)

Milan, Italy | January 23 – 26, 2026
INSTINC Singapore | September 23 - 27, 2026