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 71 by Benedicte Gele

Oil painting

Equine Nude 70 by Benedicte Gele

Oil painting

Equine Nude 11t by Benedicte Gele

Drawing

Equine Nude 3t (In Gallery, WI USA) by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Alert 2t by Benedicte Gele

Pastel drawing

Equine Nude 4t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Esquive 4t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Bison 1 by Benedicte Gele

Watercolour

Equine Life 2 by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Alert 5 by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Equine Nude 104 by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Equine Nude 103 by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing