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 151t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Expression 34t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Equine Nude 261 by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Face to Face 71t (In gallery) by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Equine Nude 266 by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Deer by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Face to Face 70t by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting

Equine Nude 149t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Equine Nude 148t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Face to Face 69t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Face to Face 8 by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Equine Nude 147t by Benedicte Gele

Acrylic painting