Aurélie Gravas is a French painter living and working in Brussels. Painting primarily with pigments, her work balances softness with boldness, creating playful yet enigmatic works.
Her practice explores the space between figuration and abstraction, where faces, figures, flowers, objects and landscapes emerge, dissolve and transform.
The forms created often hover between recognition and ambiguity—
a face may become a flower, a landscape may dissolve into colour, and familiar shapes take on unexpected identities.
Her gestures evoke simultaneously movement and stillness, with layers, fragments, bold contours and shifting forms that are intriguing and invite the viewer to pause, look, question and ultimately complete the image for themselves.
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AURÉLIE GRAVASTulip and Fan, 2026Oil and pigments on canvas210 x 160 cm -
AURÉLIE GRAVASThe Drawer, 2026Oil and pigments on canvas210 x 160 cm -
AURÉLIE GRAVASThe Massage, 2026Oil and pigments on canvas140 x 170 cm -
AURÉLIE GRAVASLes Doigts Dans L'eau, 2026Oil and pigments on canvas210 x 160 cm -
AURÉLIE GRAVASLa Bougie, 2026Oil, pigments and dampened charcoal on canvas170 x 140 cm -
AURÉLIE GRAVASForet II, 2026Oil and pigments on canvas100 x 81 cm -
AURÉLIE GRAVASHalf and Half Woman, 2026Oil and pigments on canvas100 x 81 cm -
AURÉLIE GRAVASForet, 2026Oil and pigments on canvas100 x 81 cm