Axelle Biltgen

A painter based in the south of France, Axelle Biltgen has found in painting a medium of expression where shapes, colors, and emotions freely interact. Always passionate about drawing, she explores through this art the tension between chaos and order, visible and invisible.

Borrowing from the Expressionist style, her work focuses primarily on portraiture—whether of wild animals or human figures. She seeks less to freeze an identity than to capture a presence, a breath of life.

Her world is an invitation to contemplation. Her canvases, vibrant with color and emotion, reveal a sensitivity at the surface. Each portrait thus becomes a unique encounter, a look at the beauty and soul of her subjects. She also explores abstract art, guided by a constantly renewed curiosity.

Her rich and varied technique plays with contrasts, materials, and layering. She constantly experiments with new processes, creating works that are sometimes soft and dreamlike, sometimes energetic and expressive. Her work oscillates between raw emotion and patient composition, between chaos and structure.