For Bénédicte Gelé, painting horses has never been about representation. What drives her is what the animal brings to light: raw emotion, inhabited silence, inner resonance. The horse becomes a territory — a living, sensitive matter to explore rather than depict. A raw land where each brushstroke, each trace, reveals a fragment of humanity.

Her semi-abstract work emerges from deep listening — to the body, to the present moment, to intuition. She works in mixed media, constantly exploring, layering, scraping, revealing. The line — rooted in her background as a graphic designer — remains central: at times structure, at times fracture, it guides the gaze through compositions where strength and fragility coexist.

Each piece is a silent dialogue between the artist and the animal — and, in its own way, between the artwork and the viewer. Because if the horse acts here as a mirror, it is to help us connect more deeply with ourselves.

Benedicte Gele

Artworks by Benedicte Gele

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Run 1p by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Equine Nude 15p (In Gallery) by Benedicte Gele

Pastel drawing

Face to Face 8p (In Gallery) by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Equine Nude 14p by Benedicte Gele

Charcoal drawing

Expression 21t (In Gallery) by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Connexion by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Etude 464 by Benedicte Gele

Pastel drawing

Face to Face 134t (In Gallery) by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Face to Face 47t by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Face to Face 48t by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Look XXII by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Look XXIII by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting