Marcelle Rosfelder-Leu is a Swiss-Japanese artist based in London and Zurich. She holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art (2025) and an earlier MA in Archaeology from SOAS, University of London. Before establishing her full-time painting studio in Hong Kong, she worked across early Asian art and contemporary art initiatives in London, Zurich, and Hong Kong. Her background in art history and early Asian art informs a sensitivity to layered histories, trace, and legacy, an influence that underpins her approach to painting. Her practice unfolds where language dissolves, between presence and absence, memory and becoming. Following her recent series Skin Acts, Rosfelder-Leu continues in Drip and Flow to explore dripping, soft washes, layered surfaces, and flowing gestural strokes, treating the canvas as a site of emergence. Each work becomes a convergence of breath, gesture, and transformation.

Inspired by Chinese ink traditions, she treats the stroke as breath, a gesture of becoming rather than boundary. Her process combines sweeping brushstrokes, transparent washes, and stains with inscriptive marks made with oil stick or brush. These material acts embody a hybrid sensibility rooted in her mixed heritage. With a nod to Abstract Expressionism and East Asian calligraphy, her gestural strokes and fluid washes respond intuitively to what is felt rather than seen, exploring themes of absence, intimacy, and fractured language. Each painting is a site of transformation. To return to the surface is to begin again, to map the internal onto the visible world.