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 138t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Face to Face 54t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Look XXVII by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Face to Face 13a by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Equine Nude 28a by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Equine Nude 27a by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Equine Nude 24a by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Equine Nude 23a by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Expression 2a by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Face to Face 52t by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting

Face to Face 10a by Benedicte Gele

Ink drawing

Look XXVI by Benedicte Gele

Mixed-media painting