[4] Many of her works incorporate allegorical symbolism and draw inspiration from literature, philosophy, and art history, including Catholic iconography inherited via Spanish colonialism and Malay spiritual beliefs, such as the use of amulets in anting-anting.
[3] Gelvezon-Tequi described her printmaking as an improvisatory process in which the artist encountered visual surprises which, then, guide them in certain directions.
"[6] Her 2020 exhibition, Allegories and Realities, a retrospective of Gelvezon-Tequi's half a century-long career featured 219 of her works, including a series of lesser known silk paintings.
[2] Since 2005, she has lived with her husband, Marc Téqui, in the rural village of Limeuil, France where, in the 1990s, they bought a 17th-century house built on top of a 13th-century cellar.
She makes frequent return visits to her native Philippines and chooses to create art primarily for Filipino audiences.