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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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

Hierarchy 15 by Benedicte Gele

Charcoal drawing

Equine Nude 34t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Equine Nude 25t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Still-life with Banana by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting