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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Look XVIII by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Alert 9t by Benedicte Gele

Drawing

Equine Nude 39t by Benedicte Gele

Drawing

Equine Nude 38t by Benedicte Gele

Drawing

Equine Nude 37t by Benedicte Gele

Drawing

Horse Life 3 (In Gallery, Moret sur Loing - Fr) by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Still Life with Bananas 2 by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Alert 8t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Equine Nude 35t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Alert 7t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Race 4 by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Sketch 289 by Benedicte Gele

Pencil drawing