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

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Equine Nude 178 by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Equine Nude 177 by Benedicte Gele

Charcoal drawing

The Girl With A Pearl From Vermeer by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Expression 2t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Expression 1t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Gaze XX by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Equine Nude 88t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Equine Nude 87t by Benedicte Gele

Charcoal drawing

Equine Nude 16a by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Equine Nude 7p by Benedicte Gele

Charcoal drawing

Face to Face 17t by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Face to Face 18t by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting